Sentence examples for from opposing factions from inspiring English sources

Even as armed soldiers from opposing factions rumbled into Dili, the city remained relatively calm.

All of which sets the stage for 12 hours of vigorous contention on Thursday, with landlord and tenant advocates from the audience taking turns in last-word attempts to test the limits of their allotted three-minute speaking times -- punctuated by vociferous support or derision from opposing factions in the crowd.

He orders that representatives from opposing factions be allowed to monitor the daily activity at the Registrar of Voters' office to establish honest voter registration.

Battles are similar to those in Shogun: Total War, where two armies from opposing factions engage in combat until one side is defeated or withdraws.

Mr. Toussaint heads a deeply divided union local, in which leaders have long been under pressure to talk tough and threaten strikes, in part to prevent opposing factions from accusing them of weakness.

During the period that led to the independence of Libya in 1961, opposing factions from eastern and western regions in Libya overcame their differences and agreed to form a united country under a federal kingdom with three states (the third from the southwest).

When the Soviets withdrew in 1989, after years of brutal resistance from the Mujahideen, civil war broke out between opposing factions.

Like all great rivalries – from Sherlock and Moriarty to Rangers and Celtic – these opposing factions need each other, and it did kind of seem like they were all having a good time together. .

Russia and Turkey worked together in recent weeks to enable the evacuation of refugees from the stricken city of Aleppo, even while they backed opposing factions in the battle.

To illustrate it, Mr. Crooke describes an episode from the conflict in Northern Ireland in which the British put two opposing factions into a room for talks, "naïvely imagining that talking would help".

It wasn't opposing factions that banned the Orson Welles-John Houseman production from debuting, it was the supposedly sympathetic WPA Workers Progress Administrationn), whose, uh, management was fearful that the production would endanger the organization's other endeavors.