factional
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We’re talking about an enormous bureaucratic organization with 2,000 years of weird and troubled history, whose massive internal contradictions and bitter factional disputes are only partly visible to outsiders.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Ordained a priest in 2002, she became the first female Bishop of London in 2018, only four years after the church began allowing women bishops after years of bitter factional wrangling.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
But some backbenchers have complained about "petty factional manoeuvring" and are calling for the decision to be reconsidered.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
Rodríguez’s tone shift highlighted the balance that her shaky interim leadership is testing out as she tries to withstand U.S. pressure while keeping the country’s so-called revolutionary government from dissolving into factional infighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
But when I urge him to speak out, to raise public interest as a defense against factional intrigue, he does not hear me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
