faction fight
Britishnoun
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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
Quite a couple of hundred women with a sprinkling of men, and as much noise as at an Irish faction fight.
From The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
Now a faction fight doesn't resemble this at all at all.
From The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
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 Horace White
We had another chelan last night—you have learnt the meaning of that word, I daresay!—a faction fight among our people.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
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