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factional /ˈfakʃ(ə)n(ə)l /adjective1Relating or belonging to a faction: factional leaders...- Far more threatening to the dominant factions, however, is the prospect that younger parliamentarians will ignore their factional leaders.
- After meeting with various factional leaders, he claimed that he had made proposals to overcome the stalemate.
- Three new national vice-presidencies were simply added to make room for factional leaders who faced being squeezed out of the party's governing body.
1.1Characterized by dissent: factional conflicts...- The issue for many of us is going to be whether or not we can win the peace, and that is, keep this country together without having factional, tribal conflicts.
- The intervention therefore sharpened factional conflict by increasing the rewards anticipated from controlling the state.
- By 2000, following his retirement from electoral politics, the party was beset by factional conflict and lost still more support.
Derivativesfactionalism /ˈfakʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɪz(ə)m / noun ...- Ilchev said referendums were inappropriate to the country's political environment, characterised as it is by rivalries and factionalism.
- But once they succeed, they really will lack any basis for a continued alliance, and factionalism will reemerge.
- Life seldom imitates art, and the struggle to achieve votes for women was as fraught with internal factionalism and personal rivalries as any other political movement.
factionally adverb ...- ‘It is going to be played out factionally when it shouldn't be,’ Robertson warned.
- I don't think anybody that is associated with the Labor Council today under my leadership would believe that it runs factionally.
- The debate is usually factionally driven and therefore nothing ever happens.
Rhymesfractional, redactional, transactional |