Sentence examples for popular faction from inspiring English sources

A member of the powerful Calimala guild of merchants and bankers, Giano abandoned his own "magnate" class of established wealth to head the popular faction in 1292 93.

When serious disorders erupted in 1575, the old nobility abandoned the city, and a popular faction took their place beside the new nobility.

But as a piece of popular faction, I found the one I read distasteful - there's something pornographic about it and it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Before he arrived there, however, Synadenos was overthrown and driven from the city by a rebellion led by a radical popular faction, the Zealots.

A major opponent representing the popular factions in the province was Elisha Cooke, Jr., a politician and major landowner in Maine, which was then part of Massachusetts.

But the governing Justice and Development Party quickly said it would move within days to re-elect Mr. Erdogan, laying to rest any question about whether he was in charge of the country's most popular political faction.

WWE and World Championship Wrestling were running head to head, with the Ted Turner-backed WCW starting to dominate the television ratings war thanks to the mega-popular NWO faction, featuring Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.

"If we insist on pursuing our past policies and ignore the popular support, our faction will become isolated like a sect," Mr. Mohebian said.

He worked closely with Elisha Cooke, Jr. (1678 1737), the leader of the "popular party", a faction that resisted any encroachment by royal officials on the colonial rights embodied in the Massachusetts Charter of 1691.

For right-wing activity they looked at the page of the "Alternative for Germany" party, the most popular anti-immigration political faction in the country and one that does not attempt to control the conduct on its threads.

Briefly put, the church became an institution rent by factions, wherein popular discontent found a means of expression.