factionalism
a condition in which a group, organization, government, etc., is split into two or more smaller groups with differing and often opposing opinions or interests: Because of factionalism within the student community, only one-third of the students are officially striking.His term as director would prove difficult on occasion, primarily because of the factionalism and the poisonous relationships among some of the members.
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How to use factionalism in a sentence
We’ve become more polarized as a county, and as a result, the parties have become more ideologically uniform, making the factional politics that drive primary challengers less likely.
Changes to the party system were probably part of the reason that Bush’s fate looked different from that of Hayes, whose factional rivals in his own party ensured he kept his one-term promise in 1880.
Is There A Chance The Winner In 2020 Will Be Able To Credibly Claim A Mandate? | Julia Azari | October 28, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightIn it, the native New Yorker plays a factional version of herself.
‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Creator Radha Blank on Seeing Herself and Missing Her Mother | cmurray | October 9, 2020 | Essence.comBy Tuesday it was evident the factional balance of power had shifted.
How the son of strawberry pickers became Japan’s most likely choice for next prime minister | claychandler | September 3, 2020 | FortuneIntraparty factionalism is relatively easy to cure; a convention usually does the trick.
Is Mitt Romney the Most Unpopular Likely Presidential Nominee Ever? | Andrew Romano | March 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
factionalism is a class spirit which will sacrifice the interest of the whole to the interest of the class.
Ethics in Service | William Howard TaftThis factionalism contributed largely to the overthrow of the radicals.
The Sequel of Appomattox | Walter Lynwood FlemingThis array of a proletariat against intelligent and successful leadership produces factionalism in society.
Ethics in Service | William Howard TaftThe sources of this factionalism were varied, and some of them had little to do with the affairs of Virginia.
The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 | Wesley Frank CravenHe could not attract a party to his leadership by seductive wiles, nor infuse fanatic factionalism into its ranks.
History of the Jews, Vol. VI (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz
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