As a country, it is time we rid ourselves
of factionalism of all kinds, especially those borne out of political divisions, in order that we can pull together as one people working to realize a common vision of development and prosperity for our country and people.
We don't know the extent of
factionalism within the Chinese Communist Party, though we do know how often its existence is condemned — by Xi and his faction.
The memberships of right - wing organizations often overlap, and the groups themselves (like those on the far left) are often riven
by factionalism and internal conflicts.
The run - up to the party's national executive elections in Tamale in April 2014, was characteristically, beset
with factionalism, especially, in the case of the position for Chairman and the General - Secretary.
As an ironic side note, back when US was created, people were actually idealistic enough to actually try and
avoid factionalism (as partisanship was known back then) in politics.
We now find ourselves in the middle of Labour's first truly modern leadership campaign; one that eschews the left /
right factionalism of the past and the fatalism we used to have about whether we could actually win power at all.
Nor did it notice how within a people «professing the same religion» incommensurate universes of discourse participate in
bloody factionalism.
But unless the community could overcome the
alienating factionalism of that pluralism with a Spirit - generated consensus, there could be no setting in which converts could mature.
Congregations that may be struggling to «strengthen their sense of community» or heal
from factionalism might pay closer attention to how they celebrate communion.
Yet feminists fear the conflict between the desire for internal criticism and the need to avoid
acrimonious factionalism.
Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana, Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey expressed disappointment
over factionalism and commercialisation of churches that had clouded the propagation of the truth message from God.
Labour has always been prone to
factionalism because politics on the left always has to mean something.
Unfortunately, the management of a major political party in the UK does not
suit factionalism.
Rightwing MPs, not unions, split Labour in 1931 and 1981, just as it was New Labour parliamentarians who fuelled the debilitating Blair -
Brown factionalism that so weakened the most recent Labour government, as Mandelson surely knows.
We have had nothing but the Progress right
wing factionalism and psychodramas even to the point of almost kicking out the Unions, the last vestiges of what labour have left in them.
He told the BBC Politics Show yesterday: «There was far too much self - indulgent and
egotistical factionalism and people spending their weekends at London dinner parties plotting the demise of other people in the Labour party.
The NPP has been grappling with
intense factionalism following the indefinite suspension of national chairman Paul Afoko, general secretary Kwabena Agyepong and second vice-chairman Sammy Crabbe.
Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their
perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.
Byrne's Progress paper on the 2010 defeat argues that the lessons of 2005 were «much misunderstood», alluding to fierce internal arguments over the analysis he produced at Tony Blair's behest that autumn, just as New
Labour factionalism hit new lows.
Last year, a member of the party, 37 - year old Sadiq Abubakar, was killed in the Asawase constituency in a disagreement which was largely spearheaded by the
perceived factionalism in the party.
The warnings
against factionalism echo a detailed statement last week urging a «comradely, respectful» contest from the Campaign for Socialism, a leftwing Scottish grouping originally set up to oppose Tony Blair's rewriting of clause four in 1994.
Lord Tebbit — who intervened in the last election campaign against MacGregor - complained about MM's
factionalism whilst he was part of the Federation of Conservative Students.
The parliamentary Labour party couldn't even descend into
proper factionalism as Keir Hardie and Richard Bell got on quite well.
Wilson was a politician with extraordinary talent, who won four general elections, and twice held the party together through crises
when factionalism looked set to tear it apart.
The film also falls into the traditional Marvel third - act trap: for all the attack rhinos and the
tribal factionalism, it's still just a big, noisy CGI battle climax.
In cities where school - board members are elected from subdistricts, people think citywide election of all board members would
decrease factionalism and ethnic tension.
In the conflict between Republicans and Federalists described by Ellis throughout the book, readers can understand the origins of
party factionalism that is a strong factor in American politics to this day.
The
occasional factionalism among groups that people bump into is a turnoff and sends the wrong message about our commitment to the cause.
The revolutionary optimism that swept in a new regime lasts about a decade, after which a bitter awakening from years of
ethnic factionalism reveals that a few clever opportunists have absconded with the nation's spoils and left a splintered public holding the bill.
The FPTP system is referred to by Justice Lebel at para 157 of Figuera as «one of Canada's core political institutions» which has «the virtue of fostering a strong political centre and
reducing factionalism.»
This is critically important at a time when «fake news,» social unrest, and
political factionalism threaten to undermine the fragile foundation that supports democracy.
Factionalism within Colombia's ruling class, moreover, has led to repeated episodes of warfare.
While Patriarch Jarema of the Autocephalous Church speaks angrily about both his rivals, Metropolitan Sabodan of the Russian church is more conciliatory, noting that Christians have often been divided
by factionalism and politics.
But it isn't just the Tories - there are the splits in the Labour Party, perhaps best typified by the Welsh Leader completely at odds with its Westminster Leader, and plagued by internal rifts, and even the nationalists Plaid Cymru riven
with factionalism, unsure about what Wales» future holds.
A founder member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho - Tamakloe, has encouraged the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo to vigorously fight political polarisation and
factionalism in the country.
«However such a process would almost certainly lead to intra party tensions, given the NPP's history
of factionalism, something that would be off - putting to electorate,» the report compiled between July and August 2017 said.
And the so - called Vatileaks scandal has pulled back the curtain on infighting and
factionalism within the potent Catholic curia, the leadership core.
As for islam, it seems to be where christianity was a few hundred years ago, dominant, violent, plagued by
factionalism and willing to murder and make war to keep power.
Henry Kissinger has made a diplomatic career of explaining peoples in conflict to one another; in private life the imagination (emotion) powered by factual information (intellect) could, if exercised assiduously, make simply astonishing headway toward breaking down
factionalism, the sense of us and them.
While an extended republic was not absolutely immune to the dangers of
factionalism, it was more likely to secure the permanent and aggregate interests of the community than any alternative system.