Sentence examples for offending faction from inspiring English sources
For example a bar fight between two Wayuu can be settled by the offending faction paying a sum of goats to the injured party and that this payment can be made in installments.
Evidently there was anxiety about offending those factions today.
Reforms of Buddhist and other cultural practices offended different factions within the Sinhalese community.
They are both intelligent, of course, but they also share an ability to navigate among factions without offending anyone.
As we stood on the balcony of the museum for three hours waiting for the speech to begin, we kept furtively asking one another what our plans were, quiet so as not to offend the different factions or cause any rifts.
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.
He tries to please every faction and may wind up offending them all.
The way you win the presidency forecloses certain options for governing; factions you offend during the campaign don't want to give you any victories once you take office, and if you then try to distance yourself from the people who did support you, you end up with a coalition of no one.
All the factions, he says, "sought to lure their American occupiers into aiding them in fulfilling a purely communal agenda," while the Americans, for their part, "showed a genius for offending everybody simultaneously".
A faction of yaks protested.
