Sentence examples for old faction from inspiring English sources

In many parts of Afghanistan, that was already being done by old faction chiefs, raising fears of a return to the endless civil wars of the past.

Instead it is Mr. Karzai who has stuck with old faction leaders, naming the former Northern Alliance leader and former Defense Minister Muhammad Qasim Fahim as his first vice president, and Muhammad Karim Khalili, an ethnic Hazara, to continue as his second vice president.

His faction came to be called the "Old Faction" or "Revolutionary Faction" ("Starzy" or "Frakcja Rewolucyjna"), while their opponents were known as the "Young Faction", "Moderate Faction" or "Left Wing" ("Młodzi", "Frakcja Umiarkowana", "Lewica").

In the charged atmosphere of Springfield politics at the moment, this had the feeling of a playground challenge by the new kid trying to break up the old faction.

He entered federal parliament only in 2007, but has already been a minister for workplace relations, education and financial services.Although keen to project himself as a new face, offering "big ideas" for a "diverse nation", Mr Shorten is still seen by some as part of Labor's old faction-ridden ways.

He was a minister for workplace relations, education and financial services during the Rudd-Gillard era, and seems to get on well with business leaders.Despite being the trailblazer of Labor's new internal democracy, Mr Shorten is to some eyes a figure of the party's old faction-ridden ways.

The old factions relish the idea of another taste of power.

But the desire for peace and the strength of reconciliation have proved more powerful than old factions and fears, writes the Irish novelist David Park.

The tale that David tells her about the origins of the old faction-dominated system back home in Chicago, a perplexing saga involving wars caused by genetic modification, an experiment that has lasted 200 years and the difference between pure and damaged genes, is far-fetched even by the standards of the genre, not to mention confusing.

Despite struggles between an older faction and a newer group in the tribe, the Nisqually have successfully built a casino as well as new fishing and scuba-diving enterprises.

Appealing to an older faction of rural and middle-class voters, Velayati, 67, has more political experience than Jalili, a strength he deployed with startling force during the third round of televised debates, last Sunday.