Sentence examples for traditional factions from inspiring English sources

A new self-possessed intellectualism was widespread in black music, and the experimental and traditional factions hadn't yet hardened their positions.

In an interview, the party's national president, Dulce María Sauri Riancho, acknowledged that the PRI's survival depended partly on its ability to negotiate agreements between traditional factions and reformers.

At age 47, Mr. Madrazo leads one of the most traditional factions of the party and, much like a Chicago ward boss, he has kept his party the dominant political power in largely poor and rural Tabasco.

As leader of the Christian Democrats, Mrs. Merkel has been increasingly criticized for her failure to connect with the traditional factions of the party, including Roman Catholics, employers and employees, as well as the lobby organized around the small and medium-sized companies that are considered the backbone of the German economy.

Their harsh rhetoric was mostly directed at the reformists and centrists like former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, but at the same time they tried to uproot the traditional faction of the principlists.

The Parthians largely remained neutral during Caesar's civil war, fought between forces supporting Julius Caesar and forces supporting Pompey and the traditional faction of the Roman Senate.

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Legislation to legalize the practice is slow, facing headwinds from brick-and-mortar casinos and traditional antigambling factions.

Opponents include an influential casino industry wary of competition and the traditional antigambling factions, who oppose it on moral grounds.

The sport faded in importance after the fall of Rome in the West, surviving only for a time in the Byzantine Empire, where the traditional Roman factions continued to play a prominent role for some time, gaining influence in political matters.

Barack Obama has been known to attract niche audiences, gaining support from non-traditional political factions like "Bartenders for Obama," "Sisters for Obama" and "Hipsters for Obama" during his re-election campaign.