factionfac‧tion /ˈfækʃən/ noun 
struggles between the different factions within the party the leaders of the warring factions2[uncountable] formal disagreements and arguments between different groups within an organization: jealousy and faction—factional adjective: factional conflict
WORD ORIGINfaction
Origin:
1400-1500 French, Latin factio ‘act of making’; ➔ FASHION1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The pro-war faction within the party condemned any attempt at negotiation.
- The warring factions are attempting to negotiate an end to the conflict.
- The whole of the country has been taken over and destroyed by warring factions.
- Dwyer also wanted to ensure that conflicting political and business factions did not undermine the regeneration strategy.
- In a small Texas school district, two political factions were vying for control of the school board.
- Since then, factions of moderates and hardliners have battled within the movement.
- There are now at least half a dozen Akali factions, both moderate and militant.
- There was great rivalry between the colour factions, often with political implications.
Longman Language Activatora small group within a larger political or religious organization
a group of people within a larger political or religious organization who have different aims from many of the other people within it: · The pro-war faction within the party condemned any attempt at negotiation.· The whole of the country has been taken over and destroyed by warring factions.
a group of people in a political or religious organization who have ideas that most people in the organization do not agree with or think are extreme: · The terrorist fringe condemned the decision and threatened to use force.· Crusading journalist William Lloyd Garrison represented the radical fringe.lunatic fringe (=people with very extreme, stupid ideas): · a lunatic fringe of cranks and reactionaries, who probably still believe that the earth is flat
a small group of people who leave a larger political or religious group to form their own smaller group, because they do not agree with the larger group's beliefs, aims, methods etc: · They broke away and formed a splinter group that believed in revolution, not gradual change.· The splinter group rapidly gained support from discontented members.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the leaders of the warring factionsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable] a small group of people within a larger group, who have different ideas from the other members, and who try to get their own ideas accepted: the leaders of the warring factions· My task is to unite the rival factions within the party.
(=groups of people fighting each other)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· This was soon followed by a further defeat for the conservative faction in the Theological Commission.
· It seems most likely that, as often in Thessaly, different factions based on the great families held different strongholds.· These different factions have debated the issues for many years on committee after committee without resolving the problems.
· As leader of the Liberal Democrats' largest and wealthiest faction, Mr Takeshita wields enormous clout.
· The Leadership Council was composed of the heads of the country's main mujaheddin factions.
· It is the path a load would follow if it was pulled by the opposing factions in the drawing.· The referendum campaign had been fiercely fought by opposing factions.
· I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions.· It must be stated that other factions existed also.
· Inevitably political faction was a feature of the minorities.· No longer mere house organs for competing political factions, newspapers became influential and independent institutions in their own right.· Dwyer also wanted to ensure that conflicting political and business factions did not undermine the regeneration strategy.· Newspapers served largely as partisan promotional vehicles for political factions, and personal propaganda outlets for political figures.· Amnesty International is independent of all governments, political factions, ideologies, economic interests and religious creeds.· In a small Texas school district, two political factions were vying for control of the school board.· Later in the century political factions still depended on association with particular claimants to the throne.· Printed on hand presses, they had small circulations, and were essentially house organs for political factions.
· However, the Colorados' Batllismo Radical faction, which hitherto had had one representative in the Cabinet pulled out of the coalition.· Can it avoid self-destruction caused by the strong ideological differences among its moderate and its more radical factions?· The stance on independence represented a victory for the party's radical New Tide faction.
· This, then, was the situation when Mary succeeded to the throne, and the rival factions lined up.· But the Bush White House is no longer the crutch on which the rival factions in Ireland should rely.· The rival factions have carved fiefdoms within the government, with more powerful faction leaders claiming seats on the Council of State.· Popular suffrage meant that rival factions would shout for their own candidate.· On the other hand, Vanguard, published by the rival faction, took the opposite position in its January 1988 issue.· This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party, as rival factions take up distinctive stances.· Officials said the fighting between the militias, which torpedoed peace talks last month, again endangers negotiations between rival factions.
· Or the myriad of small San Francisco factions that know how to stop anything?
· When he was prime minister, this meant holding the Motherland Party together by playing off its various factions against each other.· At work there are various battling factions.· The by pass row created various factions for and against.· This set the various factions manoeuvring, while Ne Win also came in.· Intrigues between various factions striving to make the king their puppet continued throughout his minority.· He expressed his hearty agreement and desire for a compromise between the various church factions, and pledged his active support.
· Thus the Labour Party became a battleground for its own warring factions.· Steps are now being taken to get both warring factions around the negotiating table.· The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year.· Already they've been the target of attacks from warring factions.· Indeed, he hoped they would provide the basis of a religion that could unite the warring factions of the Church.· Envoys for peace are trying to bring warring factions together, and individuals and organisations are battling to feed the hungry.· The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.· Best of all, the warring factions of the committee somehow came together on the night.
NOUN· Coups are plotted in small groups huddled around a faction leader and strategies decided at fringe meetings.· The rival factions have carved fiefdoms within the government, with more powerful faction leaders claiming seats on the Council of State.· The party's ageing faction leaders, says Mr Segni, have turned into pure power brokers.
· The fragile truce between rival rebel factions in the Solomon Islands came under threat after a third rebel group entered the conflict.· But peace talks stalled, and pro- and anti-rebel factions have clashed repeatedly.
· The only woman included within the Cabinet was Akiko Santo, a television presenter and member of the Takeshita faction.· The disintegration of the Takeshita faction was seen as a mixed blessing for Miyazawa.
VERB· At present the party seems to be divided into two factions, representing different specialist prejudices.· He castigated members of the Central Committee for allowing the party to become divided by factions.
· He had no political aims and did not lead a faction, although he sought lesser posts for a few clients.· Buddhist monks led several of these factions.
· Parliament is split into factions with no single group in the majority.· At this congress the delegates split into two factions.
· The warring factions are suggesting drastically different solutions to the crisis.· The current winner that can temporarily dominate over all the other warring factions?· There was acrimony, warring factions in the team.
struggles between the different factions within the party the leaders of the warring factions2[uncountable] formal disagreements and arguments between different groups within an organization: jealousy and faction—factional adjective: factional conflict