Sentences with phrase «of factionalism»

We used fear of being accused of factionalism as the excuse.

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

All over the empire, Christian factionalism led to a perceptible increase in the climate of violence.

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.

Nor did it notice how within a people «professing the same religion» incommensurate universes of discourse participate in bloody factionalism.

Yet from another angle, there were responsibilities to be met, temptations to sexual indulgence, acquisitiveness, factionalism, and the will to power to be overcome, rights to be defended, and duties to be undertaken in the name of Christ, which are perennial in character.

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.

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.

Then with a fine sense of historical irony he describes how the development of a party system, which embodied the very «factionalism» that Washington above all felt would bring down the republic, gave the nation «a mechanism of... self - criticism and self - correction» that, for all its descent into inanity, has somehow served the cause of republicanism well.

Congregations that may be struggling to «strengthen their sense of community» or heal from factionalism might pay closer attention to how they celebrate communion.

A directionless government, without the underpinning of a clear purpose, inevitably ended in factionalism, intrigue and bankruptcy.

It must take brass nerve to accuse Momentum of «factionalism» after pulling a stunt like that.

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.

These three groups on the right of the Party aim to cooperate in this Parliament, putting an end to the factionalism of the right during the opposition years.

Unfortunately, the management of a major political party in the UK does not suit factionalism.

Miliband has described himself as a new type of Labour politician, looking to move beyond the divisiveness of Blairism and Brownism, and calling for an end to the «factionalism and psychodramas» of Labour's past.

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.

Ed Miliband, one of the five Labour leadership contenders, today urged the party to «move on» from the «factionalism and psychodramas» of the party's past.

The Labour source insisted that the days of «factionalism and labels» had gone.

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.

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.

I'm sure Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP will see the real need to profusely dissociate themselves from such unguarded and immature pronouncement that have the potential of splitting this country into factionalism on religious grounds.

The Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham today urged the party to put an end to «factionalism and self - indulgence» and move on from the feuding of the Blair - Brown era.

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.

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.

Prescott, who has already published his memoirs, was measured in his criticism of Mandelson's decision to publish, but waded into the factionalism that disfigured Labour in government.

Finally beginning her campaign after weeks of speculation that she would take on Corbyn amid a revolt against him by Labour MPs, Eagle said the party needed to move beyond the factionalism and divisions of the current era.

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.

Wild Reeds though, is haunted by the past, both the war in Algeria that comes to an end during the course of the film, but also WW2 and the factionalism of France's postwar politics.

A joint effort by Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, and several local and state representative to procure state aid for both district and charter schools is another sign factionalism is waning.

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.

Factionalism within the PUP and the UDP sometimes led to the establishment of new parties.