Factional struggles within the party reached an apex in 2008 when President Thabo Mbeki neared his term limit but was determined to prevent the allegedly corrupt vice-president Jacob Zuma from succeeding him.
Not exact matches
It was Bannon who seems to have first popularized the «globalist» label as a term for his
factional enemies, seeking to leverage Trump's protectionist instincts to win a larger set of power
struggles.
That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by
factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by
struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.
Finally, while Tunisia and Egypt
struggle under political and economic pressures, Libya has succumbed to
factional warfare.
As he projected, «There will be fiercer
struggles over scarce resources, starker divisions along
factional lines.»