Sentence examples for independent factions from inspiring English sources

Elie Hobeika, a 30-year-old former banker, was ousted as commander of the Lebanese Forces, the Christian militia comprising soldiers of several formerly independent factions, after bloody fighting last January.

So with Z-40 captured, it looks likely that existing cartels and the newly independent factions within Los Zetas will duke it out over territory.

Subsequently, as a member of the Weimar Reichstag (1920 24), he was the head of a small independent faction.

Some also appeared to have soured on an unusual arrangement in which control of the State Senate is being shared between Republicans and an independent faction of Democrats.

It is not clear how the State Senate, which is controlled by a coalition of Republicans and an independent faction of Democrats, will respond to the measure.

This year, after losing seats in the fall election, Republican senators formed a power-sharing coalition with an independent faction of Democrats to control the chamber.

The obstacle, for advocates of public financing, is the State Senate, which is controlled by a coalition of Republicans and an independent faction of four Democrats.

The Senate's majority coalition, made up of Republicans and an independent faction of Democrats, floated the idea of gradually increasing the wage to an unspecified amount from $7.25 per hour over the next three years.

(Although Democrats have a numerical majority in the Senate, Republicans have partial control of the chamber — and veto power over any bill moving to the floor — thanks to an alliance they formed with an independent faction of Democrats).

The indictment of Mr. Libous could deprive the governor of his most sympathetic negotiating partner in the Senate Republican caucus, which has shared control of the chamber with an independent faction of Democrats.

When the leader of the independent faction of Democrats, Senator Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, tried to attach the abortion language to a bill on medical records, the effort failed by one vote.