Sentence examples for factions before from inspiring English sources

While RPGs have reportedly featured in battles between rival crime factions before, particularly those involving the Zetas – a paramilitary cartel originally formed by special forces soldiers – this was the first time the authorities have reported the weapon's use against one of its aircraft.

British Asians had never splintered into Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh factions before.

New scenes took years to establish, building up identifiable audience factions before reaching the end of their life cycle.

When, in the late sixties, a faction called "the Waffle" threatened to splinter the Party, Stephen Lewis crushed it, just as his father had crushed factions before.

The Palestinian leadership says it wants to reach a cease-fire with the Palestinian factions before assuming security control in Gaza and elsewhere.

Giuliani compared Obama's position with the black community with Nixon's position with the anti-communist factions before his famous diplomatic trip to China in 1972.

And where does that one line from Agamemnon take Tris? "She makes this choice.. ultimately she's saying this faction-before-blood stuff is messed up," Roth said, referring to the guiding virtue of the dystopian Chicago's leaders.

Vehicles travelling along the road have to gain clearance from each faction before they can consider it is safe to travel.

Mr Kato was the head of an LDP faction before he resigned his seat after one of his aides was involved in a tax evasion case and there were accusations of misused political funds.

As one diplomat explained, "The prevailing view in a significant part of the French diplomatic community is that mediation in Iraq is futile and that the civil war needs to run its course and hand a decisive victory to one faction before the violence can end".

The president met leaders of one protest faction before meeting with state governors and mayors.