Word: factionalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guerrilla war that might not be confined to Chechnya -- the rebels have threatened terrorist attacks on Russian nuclear-power stations -- united communists, leaders of the once pro-Yeltsin Russia's Choice party and many other politicians in condemnation of the invasion. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalists were the only major faction to voice even tepid support...
Just hours after the resignation, Berlusconi's brother, Paolo, was convicted of violating political funding laws -- along with 25 other businessmen who illegally gave money to a corrupt political faction. The bribery affair has been linked to Berlusconi's companies (which employ Paolo), but not to the owner himself, who accused police of extorting money instead...
Despite support on some issues from Budget Director Alice Rivlin, the Reich faction seemed outgunned, at least for the moment, by an unlikely alliance of go-slow conservatives and go-slow liberals. Chief of staff Leon Panetta, departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and his designated replacement Robert Rubin, warned against rhetoric that might make the Administration appear "antibusiness." Panetta told TIME he gets "nervous" about heated rhetoric "on the left or the right...
...Ghali went to Sarajevo two years ago and called the Balkan conflict a "rich man's war," it is perfectly appropriate to call him a blithering idiot--the blame is his alone. Similarly, when U.N. envoy Akashi or U.N. General Rose talk like the Serbs are just another warring faction, rather than the aggressor, we can justifiably accuse them of moral cowardice...
Arafat's spirits were temporarily buoyed when 10,000 Gazans rallied for him last week. Among them were several hundred Fatah Hawks, a military branch of Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Hawks, who had been ignored of late by Arafat, swore, in chanted slogans, to defend him and the Authority. The militiamen then drove around the Gaza Strip, brandishing their guns and shouting slogans such as, "We shall shave the beards ((of the Islamists)) with our shoes...