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
From one point of view they were little more than a great faction fight between two alliances of Motives of the contending parties. over-powerful barons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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
This proclamation was pulled down by the police, but people seemed to expect a faction fight.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon
It beats a faction fight in Tipperary hollow.
From Paddy Finn by Webb, Archibald
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