Sentence examples for factional world from inspiring English sources

Politics is by its nature a cliquey, factional world.

Thomson paints a suspenseful picture of the moody, factional world of Florentine politics and draws parallels with the inner life of an artist whose work imitates darkness and decay.

In these episodes of this very chaotic year, the idea that the President might augur some broader social tumult and change has faded; he has collapsed back into the factional world of Washington politics, and his preferences now match those of the institutional Republican Party, which he had started out denouncing.

Even in the factional, inward-looking world of racing, where people often attend solely to their own little patch of ground, it seems incredible that no one in its High Holborn offices made any connection between significant changes to the whip regime and the urgent need to direct as much attention as possible towards Champions Day.

At a time when the jazz avant garde of the 1960s was further dividing the eternally factional and quarrelsome world of British jazz, Ray Smith became the source from whom London's more adventurous enthusiasts acquired recordings whose limited availability only enhanced their appeal.

But successfully navigating factional rivalry in the world's largest political party and currying favour with rival kingmakers also plays a major role.

In a nearby village, elders sipping tea on a Friday afternoon reflect that these local commanders are just as bad as al-Qaeda.The interim administration has had neither the muscle nor the authority to prevent factional fighting, and the outside world has not helped much.

Mr Obuchi was a master of deception, a skill honed during nearly four decades of survival in the back-stabbing world of Japan's factional politics.Politics was in the family.

"Whoever brings religion to use for political or factional interests will fall anywhere in the world," Mr. Assad said, in a declaration that might not sit well with Syria's crucial allies: the theocratic government in Iran and the Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

It is set in what appears to be a horrendous central European village of the middle ages, as imagined by Hieronymus Bosch, where grotesquely ugly and wretched peasants are condemned to clamber over each other for all eternity, smeared in mud and blood: a world beset with tyranny and factional wars between groups called "Blacks" and "Greys".

More factional fighting beckons.The UN says Somalia is the world's worst humanitarian emergency.