Sentence examples for green faction from inspiring English sources

With the warm support of the Green faction, he quickly bested his enemy, decapitating Phocas and, with him, those Phocas had advanced to high civil and military office.

FRANKFURT — Shortly before municipal elections last Sunday, Olaf Cunitz, head of the Green faction in the Frankfurt City Council, heard of a poll predicting that his party would score 25 percent of the vote.

In one interview snippet after another, dozens of scientists, activists, gurus, policy types and even a magical-mushroom guy go through the arguments, present the data and criticize the anti-green faction, putting words to the images that are liberally interspersed between these talking heads like mortar.

I had no idea there were such passionate greens factions.

More recently, greener factions of the wine industry have been adopting boxes (which utilize plastic bags inside a cardboard container) and ascetic cartons for the very same reasons.

Daniel Kammen's office is home to the pragmatic, hardheaded faction of the green movement.

NABLUS, West Bank — Hundreds of men and boys sporting the signature green of the militant Hamas faction marched through the narrow alleys of the old city here on Thursday afternoon, calling for Palestinian unity but also renewed attacks on Israeli cities, in the first public demonstration by the Islamist party allowed in the West Bank in years.

This latest round of hostilities seems only to have reinforced those ideas, causing Palestinians even in West Bank universities with little Hamas presence to raise the faction's signature green flag, and leaving some Israelis asking whether the assault on Gaza stopped short.

The first recorded green party was a political faction in Constantinople during the 6th century Byzantine Empire.

In the 1960s, such frustration led to the so-called Extra-Parliamentary Opposition, a catchall category that included both the peaceful Greens and the violent Red Army Faction, with thousands of disaffected protesters in between.

Sir John then faced the daunting task of holding the agency together during the 1973 Middle East war and the outbreak of a full-scale civil war in Lebanon; its headquarters was right on the Green Line between the warring factions in Beirut.