| Would President Lincoln have been able or willing to defend the sovereignty of these factious and slaveholding tribes? |
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| A new government in which the dominant figure was Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, proved too factious to last. |
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| Arcand tells his story through a running montage of TV interviews and footage from a factious documentary filmmaker. |
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| He hoped that Philip would unite the factious Greek cities into a confederacy and then turn to the great project of invading Persia. |
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| He felt the Congress might be inclined to factious disputes and intrigues, but he also opposed giving unchecked power to a president. |
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| Paul, addressing that factious group of Corinthians, has plenty to say about communal responsibility. |
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| Royal authority had been brought to a low ebb by Mary, and during James's minority the factious nobility lived in a state of civil war. |
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| In 1791 the main periodical in Lima denounced the cafe as a factious institution, likely to promote social disturbance. |
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| Why, a factious minority will beat the largest majority in the world if the majority is inactive. |
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| His government, elected in 2007, will serve out a full term, a rarity in a fractious and factious place. |
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| The aim of the programme is to stimulate discussion on the sometimes factious relations between culture and politics. |
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| We need an anti-cult law modelled after the 1936 law against factious leagues. |
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| But this view of our history did not take root, and now the usual opinion on Bent is that he was a factious opponent of the good governor who stood up for convicts. |
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| Lee also allowed the factious sexual harassment case to become a media circus without careful consideration of the damage it might cause to Twu's family. |
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| His Indian speeches fell at times into violent emotion and abuse, lacking restraint and proportion, and his parliamentary activities were at times irresponsible or factious. |
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| In November factious tribes in Algeria captured Algiers and other towns, but by 1188 he had pacified his African territories and returned to his Spanish possessions to check the encroachments of the Portuguese and Castilians. |
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| The first question begged by Mr Veltroni's arrival on the national scene, therefore, is whether he will be able to unite the centre-left's factious leadership. |
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| Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. |
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| Her focus with respect to Owain is on the fluctuating and factious relationship between England and Wales. |
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| Gustav was the son of a Swedish senator and of a noble family whose members had played a prominent part in the factious aristocratic politics of 15th-century Scandinavia. |
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| As some of you may know, I served on the House Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, which could be a sometimes factious committee formed by the former Liberal Government. |
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| As the election of 1911 approached, the Prime Minister attempted to reunite his factious party by negotiating a treaty of reciprocity with the United States, but he failed. |
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| Unable to unite the factious monarchists, he began to govern by decree. |
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| Acting alternately as defense and prosecution, the teams argued a factious case in which various levels of international humanitarian law violations had taken place. |
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