Sentence examples for factional points from inspiring English sources

You should not resurrect them for the sake of scoring factional points or taking revenge".

In some places, the new alliances are making for some fine-point factional clarification.

The hikers' case has added new strains to the fraught relations between Tehran and Washington, while conflicting signals from Tehran in recent days about the three Americans have also pointed to factional feuding among Iranian officials.

As often seems to happen when the party gets a sniff of influence, factional strife has reached boiling point, and the handful of people who might have made a reasonable fist of succeeding Farage are nowhere to be seen.

During the tough sermon, Ayatollah Khamenei tried to tamp down factional disputes among the elite, at one point even chastising pro-government militias and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for their role in the crisis.

In this climate of code words and presumed factional allegiances, it has come to the point that to suggest Labour needs to win seats in the south of England is to identify as a Blairite and therefore as a neocon warmonger and apologist for corporate greed.

And this state of affairs means that most Nigerians, consciously or not, see things from their tribal or factional perspective rather than from a common national point of view.

"Oh, this is a famous egg!" he said laughing as he flipped through his account, pointing out how they try to provoke factional or sectarian fights.

The team remain blindly optimistic about independence, but evidence points otherwise: Iraqi Kurdistan's political elite are as factional as the football team.

Following years of state repression and a series of electoral defeats and subsequent factional splits, the opposition in Zimbabwe is at its weakest point for a decade.

A period of civil chaos and factional wars ensued.