Sentence examples for indigenous factions from inspiring English sources
JSOFOR's mission was to make initial contact with indigenous factions and leaders; provide information for force protection; and provide reports on the area for future relief and security operations.
In Taiwan, the welter of factions includes indigenous residents and descendents of the mainland Chinese who settled here decades, or even centuries, before the Nationalists arrived.
Indeed, some of the worst fighting today is occurring not between state armies and rebel forces, but between indigenous ethnic militias and the rebel factions that they regard as occupying armies serving outside predators.
Besides the five New York families and the Bruno-Scarfo faction from Pennsylvania, New Jersey has an indigenous group, the DeCavalcante family.
At this point there would be little to prevent Afghanistan swiftly falling prey to a multi-faction, nationwide fight between Kabul government forces, jihadi groups, indigenous Pashtuns (the Taliban), freelance Sunni mafiosi, and even Tajik militias from the old Northern Alliance.
Indigenous people are believed to have used plant-based psychedelics for millennia; now, factions of the western medical establishment seem to be catching on.
The weakening and near dissolution of communal ties also undermined the ability of Izalco's indigenous communities to act politically as strong autonomous allies of larger elite-led factions.
To this ideological mix the Qaddafi faction, which consolidated power in 1976, added its vision of an indigenous, pastoral, socialist society supported by oil revenues and the labor of workers from abroad.
Indigenous rights advocate and W&J elder Adrian Burragubba and others – on behalf of an anti-Adani faction that includes Australia's first Indigenous senior counsel, Tony McAvoy – argues in an application filed in court that the four who took "sitting fees" to meet Adani exceeded their authority as representatives.
