Sentence examples for rivalries between factions from inspiring English sources

The influx of Taliban fighters coincided with a sharp increase in local political rivalries between factions loyal to the governor, who was appointed by President Hamid Karzai, and other power brokers who are challenging his authority in the province and seeking his resignation over allegations of corruption.

The influx of Taliban coincides with a sharp increase in local political rivalries between factions loyal to the governor, who was appointed by President Hamid Karzai, and other powerbrokers who are challenging his authority in the province and seeking his resignation over allegations of corruption.

The power struggle involves a rivalry between factions of the Independence Party, which is New York's version of the national Reform Party.

See too her exposé of the rivalries between movement factions, like the pro-Black Panther gays versus the get-along gays — and, of course, the lesbian feminists versus the chauvinist gays, who didn't want expansive rights, just a place at the straight white men's table.

What started out as a large-scale project to turn an under-developed swath of jungle into a regional epicenter of trade turned into a symbol for opaque and allegedly corrupt government dealings, poor planning, and heated rivalries between political factions.

What started out as a gargantuan project to transform an undeveloped swath of Sri Lankan jungle into the country's number two city — an industrial and logistical epicenter in the heart of the Indian Ocean — turned into a metaphor for opaque government dealings, poor planning, the flippant use of public funds, and token rivalries between political factions.

A second factor was the rivalry between AQIM factions.

One factor driving the violence in the region is the rivalry between jihadi factions.

Rivalry between competing factions, each with its own business interests, makes it all but impossible to co-ordinate reform efforts.

Violence would often erupt at gigs, and there was rivalry between youth factions: punks, teddy boys and skinheads.

The country has also been riven for a decade by intense and sometimes violent rivalry between political factions in Bangkok and elsewhere.