Sentence examples for factions while the from inspiring English sources

Libya generally supported northern factions, while the southern ones usually found assistance from France, which sent in armed forces in support of the Chadian government on three occasions.

Since 1991, the men's tour has splintered into squabbling factions while the women have unified, secured corporate sponsors and garnered a television contract with ESPN.

All this sadly reminds me of the drums of the Iraq war and the media circulation of made-up stories peddled by Blair, Bush and pro-intervention Iraqi factions, while the anti-Saddam but anti-war Iraqis were marginalised.

For three days this month, from Feb. 1 to 3, the side-by-side campuses became a battleground for gunmen from the two factions while the universities were on winter break and largely deserted.

At the same time, he began stepping up opposition to the work of an African facilitator -- no one is using the word mediator -- appointed by the Organization of African Unity to try to reconcile Congolese political factions while the United Nations worked to help untangle conflicting military alliances.

Orléans and the Duke of Burgundy were in the pro-Visconti faction while the anti-Visconti faction included Isabeau, her brother, Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria, and John III, Count of Armagnac.

Turkey, Qatar and Sudan favour the Islamist-leaning factions, while Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among others, back the more widely recognised eastern alliance.

Prince Sihanouk insisted that the Khmer Rouge be part of a government involving all four factions, while Mr. Hun Sen vetoed the idea of a Khmer Rouge role in the government.

A contrary interpretation of the statute would allow the enemy – rather than the President and Congress – to control the scope of the AUMF by splintering into rival factions while continuing to prosecute the same conflict against the United States.

In David Greig's Dunsinane, a sequel to Macbeth, the hero's wife is reborn as a defiant witch in the insurgency after Malcolm's coronation, and Dennis Kelly's The Gods Weep, a modern King Lear, featured Jeremy Irons as a Savile Row-suited businessman dividing his accounts between warring factions while it also explored the "end of the world" theme.

For a while, the socialist factions still had enough political muscle to direct the new capitalist vehicle.