Sentence examples for factions are not from inspiring English sources
But the militant factions are not winning.
The factions are not making war on each other now, but they are terrorizing civilians, driving them from their villages.
The factions are not separated by class or race but by values or virtues: Dauntless (boldness), Abnegation (selflessness), Amity (peacefulness), Candor (honesty), and Erudite (intellectuality).
The landscape of the novel is almost recognisable, but lacks the hard edges of historical reality; the story begins at the end of a four-year war, but the factions are not named and no dates are given, leaving the story with the possibility of allegory.
In Iran, factions are not fully functional political parties but loose networks of influential elements representing institutional and financial interests.
Opposition factions are not known to have access to aircraft.
"And I was probably naïve to believe some factions were not going to be as hostile as they ended up being.
But it worries me slightly when the only thing that's really binding these divergent factions is not their love for all humanity or their desire to see a totalitarian state, but their common hatred of the west which can be called "westophobia".
Blowing the whistle on powerful factions is not a fun thing to do, but despite the poor track record of western media, whistleblowing remains the last avenue for truth, balanced debate and upholding democracy – that fragile construct which Winston Churchill is quoted as calling "the worst form of government, except all the others".
There is also internecine warfare between cartel members, and the emergence of break-away factions is not unusual.
