Sentence examples for leading factions from inspiring English sources

He wants to rebalance the power relationship among Iran's leading factions, reconciling their fissures while restoring the relative weight of the clerics vis-à-vis the Revolutionary Guard.

No Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack, though all the leading factions have a strong presence in Nablus.

"The person leading factions is the same person who accuses me of being involved in diamond deals, yet it is them that own a diamond mine," Grace Mugabe said.

Among their leading factions: Ahmad Chalabi, of the Iraqi National Congress in London, is despised by the C.I.A. and its State Department acolytes because his warning that the C.I.A.'s attempted mid-90's coup against Saddam had been penetrated was ignored.

And he heads the Fatah movement, the leading faction in the P.L.O.

For the better part of 20 years, the policies of Fatah (the leading faction within the Palestine Liberation Organisation) have been predictable to the point of tedium.

In his own kingdom he could not give full rein to his love of magnificence, for fear of offending the Pharisees, the leading faction of Judaism, with whom he was always in conflict because they regarded him as a foreigner.

Two charioteer leaders, one from each leading faction, then decided to ask the emperor for leniency for these men during the chariot games on January 13 , 532

The sharpest recent example is the centrist Kadima movement which was the leading faction in a government as recently as 2009 but has only two members in the current Knesset and could easily disappear altogether from the next.

The leading faction Hamas is determined to eliminate Israel off the map.

The pullback followed declarations by the leading Palestinian factions that they were suspending attacks against Israelis.