faction fight
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Unbelievers have an interest in this religious faction fight, if only because so much social policy revolves around sex and its consequences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Trailcudgel was a man of enormous personal strength and surprising courage, and had distinguished himself as the leader of many a party and faction fight in the neighboring fairs and markets.
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
The strife resolved itself into a faction fight between the Mercian house of Leofric and the West Saxon house of Godwine, whose dynastic policy has been magnified into patriotism by a great West Saxon historian.
From The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
It was a faction fight or something of that kind, and of course there is no feeling of a religious or party nature in it.
From Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
It beats a faction fight in Tipperary hollow.
From Paddy Finn by Webb, Archibald
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