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
The Parisians were scarcely done with the "faction fight" in which the rivalry of Gluck and Piccini had involved them; but none of the partisans were inclined to be enthusiastic about the new-comer.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
As'tragon, the philosopher and great physician, by whom Gondibert and his friends were cured of the wounds received in the faction fight stirred up by prince Oswald.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Evidently they were graver and deeper than a mere faction fight in the party, or a question whether Cameron or Curtin should have the disposal of the patronage.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
A certain very poor widow was paying the priest money for the soul of her son, who was killed in a faction fight.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
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