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But he warned: "Call them a faction, and they become factious."

But the current coalition of opposition groups is too factious to stage a coup.

The lack of security and factious fighting largely arose after we entered.

Removal of the factious regency brought stability to the government.

I agree with you on the factious point.

Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.

This system was not designed with the operation of parties in mind, as they had been thought disreputable and factious.

Goad's friends protested against his dismissal as the work of a factious party.

I should be loth to think Some factious slave had tutored him.

Maybe I had a hunch you might have something to say to me, knowing these hands hold the balance of power in this factious city."

They that are glorious, must needs be factious; for an bravery stands upon comparisons.

He thought the people striving for freedom would be "purchased back into factious vassalage."

In removing the two potentially factious parties from a project, you also remove what many consider the security of "checks and balances."

It is also the government's primary liaison to the Muslim population, which is varied and often factious.

Though factious and disparate, these groups attempt to coordinate their activities through a loose alliance called the Caucus.

Anyway, Kuyuk let this go on for a while and then called in his factious nobles.

He is a traitor; let him to the Tower, And chop away that factious pate of his.

This, perhaps, ill-affected and factious men may spread amongst the people, when the prince only makes use of his due prerogative.

But his factious cabinet, born of political compromise, has collapsed under the pressure of the country's hurried presidential elections.

"The investigation was factious," he said.

Indeed, the more democratic a party is, the more factious it is; factions make a political party.

He had transformed a fragmented, factious resistance movement into a monolithic, Gaullist one.

That prince was too easygoing to master a numerous, factious people like the Taglians.

In 1679 he was removed from his post as recorder "for acting in conjunction with the factious party against the court and loyal interest."

These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious fellows.