Sentences with phrase «factional fighting»

Infighting ensued with more than 600 Palestinians killed in factional fighting between Hamas and its political rival Fatah in 2006 - 2007.

It's told in subtitled Italian, Spanish and, I think, Calabrian, and while initially ponderous and difficult to follow, the story of family feuds and factional fighting within Calabria's rural mafia gets better as it goes ever more violently along.

The internal battles and factional fighting may now be about personality not policy, but they are all the more vicious for it.»

«That's why ZANU - PF can afford to engage in factional fighting because they know there is no strong opponent outside the party.

As we have noted before, these contests often shape up as proxy battles for larger factional fights within a party.

Nye Bevan [the minister of health responsible for the formation of the NHS] resigned over the introduction of charges in 1951, pitching Labour into a factional fight which lasted decades.

Not exact matches

Consequently, at the PRC, he fought strongly against factional loyalties and nepotism.

Livingstone and the leftists became embroiled in factional in - fighting within Labour, vying for powerful positions with centrist members.

Cameron will scrape a majority in 2009, which will then be strengthened in 2013 (as defeat will plunge labour into years of factional in - fighting, as they try and remember what the party's for).