faction fight

British

noun

a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds

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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

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 Gardner, Edmund G.

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 Carleton, William

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 Trollope, Anthony

The Committee of Public Safety, already tuned to its higher duties and viewing the faction fight of the assembly with some slight degree of detachment, steered a middle and politic course.

From The French Revolution A Short History by Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson)

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