Sentence examples for factions in which from inspiring English sources

The fighting did not cease, and Angola was devastated by a 27-year civil war between M.P.L.A. and Unita factions, in which about 500,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.

Carmine Persico's plan to have his son installed as acting boss when he was paroled in 1994 provoked an internecine war between two Colombo family factions in which at least 10 reputed gangsters and a bystander were killed in the early 1990's, according to the F.B.I.

It's not so difficult to imagine a scenario with slightly better leadership, and slightly less obstreperous Republican factions, in which the legislation would have gone through both chambers and eventually to the White House.

Bullock was endorsed as the lead candidate on the WA Senate ticket under a deal between the rightwing faction, in which Bullock's union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association ( Shoppies), wields power, and the left faction, where Smith's United Voice dominates.

Tris, who is living secretly as a "divergent" (someone who fits into more than one group), decides to leave the faction in which she was reared (Abnegation) for Dauntless.

I think it must be evident to yourself, that the Ministry have been deceived by their officers on this side of the water, who (for what purpose I cannot tell) have constantly represented the American opposition as that of a small faction, in which the body of the people took little part.

That enraged some Taliban factions in Pakistan, which outlawed vaccination in their areas and threatened vaccinators.

Sunni factions in Lebanon — which still bears the scars of its own sectarian civil war — have also sent fighters to Syria, on the rebel side.

Pentagon officials and military officers have for several weeks described the complexities -- and dangers -- of American involvement in trying to separate warring factions in Liberia, which was founded in 1847 by freed American slaves.

Unlike some Christian factions in Lebanon, which claim to be descended from the ancient Phoenicians, Syria's Christians generally pride themselves on their Arab heritage and see themselves an integral part of the region.

Some Labor figures have questioned whether Kitching's selection puts a question mark over the stability agreement between the left and the right factions in Victoria which has underpinned Shorten's leadership.