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
Their advance to the first onset was far different from a faction fight.
From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
And no man knew so well as did Sir Timothy how to elevate a simple legislative attempt into a good faction fight.
From The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
The view that the war was a mere faction fight between nobles and their retainers, while the rest of the country went about their business, is somewhat exaggerated.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
A few days later a similar faction fight took place on the other side of the bridge, in the Piazza Frescobaldi, on the occasion of a lady's funeral.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
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