Word: factionalized
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...thinks it's the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It wants input into faculty hiring and tenure decisions, University divestiture from objectionable companies and a host of other heavy topics--like Core reform and financial aid policy--which, quite simply, are too important for a bunch of wild council faction members to decide for all of us. The PUCC claims to be able to effect these changes so casually that one wonders if it's all a joke. Or do they really think that the U.C. is an organization capable, with its frightfully bad reputation, of being a credible voice...
...been since May, this six-member Supreme Council remained split down the middle on the questions of whether and how to end the war. One faction of three, headed by Prime Minister Suzuki and joined by Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo and Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, favored negotiating for peace on the most favorable terms still remaining; the other, led by War Minister Anami, argued that defeat and death would be more honorable than surrender and occupation and that Japan had no choice but to fight on. The debate continued in a Cabinet meeting that ran more than eight hours...
...those years Christians were also a breakaway Jewish faction, still hoping to persuade other Jews that Jesus was the Messiah, though he appeared to have died in defeat. It was to account for Christ's arrest and execution, Pagels believes, that the Gospel writers framed the life of Jesus as an episode in the conflict between God and Satan. Their explanation for his death, Pagels says, is that "his divine mission met with supernatural opposition...
Representatives from each major political Russian faction are expected to discuss issues such as elective politics, party politics separation of powers, foreign and defense policies and international trade...
...Major's closest allies -- tendered his resignation. Though Hurd had planned to retire this summer, officials said he had been reluctant to leave until Major was able to ward off threats from Tory rebels opposed to economic integration with Europe. Without Hurd, one of the anti-Europe faction's chief targets, Major will now be able to reshuffle his Cabinet at the July 4 leadership contest on which his own future rides...