Sentence examples for minority faction from inspiring English sources

In fact, it was simply a brilliantly organised minority faction, never big enough to win national elections on its own.

United National Movement's presidential candidate, the leader of its minority faction in Parliament, David Bakradze, finished second in Sunday's balloting, according to the exit polls.

In fact, this minority faction — the "suicide caucus," as the conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer has called it — may be less shortsighted and self-defeating than it appears.

According to the A.P., Segura said, "By any measure, gays and lesbians would have to be understood as a minority faction.

Lenin's Russian-Marxist rivals disputed these points, but his manipulation of the vote at a party congress enabled him to label them the Menshevik, or "minority," faction.

In 1997 the Provisional IRA split with a minority faction opposed to further political compromises, which broke away to form the Real IRA.

Above all, it is not a system intended to contain minority factions.

Confrontation replaces compromise as minority factions battle one another with rival initiatives.

It balances not only minority factions, as well as populism and elitism, but also the federal and state governments.

Hollywood types, Silicon Valley tycoons and other big egos took note and started their own initiatives.So did James Madison's "minority factions", the special interests.

That is because Madison feared that popular "passions" would undo the republic, that majorities might "tyrannise" minorities, and that "minority factions" (ie, special interests) would take over the system.