Sentence examples for factional networks from inspiring English sources

There was nothing insurgent about them, they built patronage machines and factional networks that lasted for decades, maneuvered at national conventions and negotiated with presidents, and governed, none of which Trump has ever done.

Politics in Afghanistan works through a system of tribal, factional and ethnic networks in which power brokers organize support for a candidate in return for money, power or position.

"Various administrations have held on to power by the old principle of divide and rule, and the game has become a network of incestuous, factional politicking".

Others were notoriously factional.

Factional disputes rent the board.

Factional competition within the party increased.

But they saw themselves as factional rivals.

That has stirred up old factional feelings.

Almost immediately, factional fighting broke out.

And here opinions divide on factional lines.

Palestinian factional division is a huge obstacle to peace.