Word: factionalized
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Despite a sizable and perhaps growing political faction against the councillor, and despite acknowledgement by councillor and then-Mayor Alice K. Wolf that his dealing may be construed as "possible conflicts of interest," Walsh still maintains a substantial bastion of political support from the big business and Independent sectors...
Here is what rivals, and even friends, say. She never lived in a refugee camp, spent time in jail, proved her activist credentials: "We don't know her history, where she stands." She's not from any faction, and among Palestinians, who you are is whom you belong to. Her enemies accuse her of being a tool of the P.L.O., which pays her salary, supplies her bodyguards, keeps her in power. No, others say, she's there only because the Americans want her there. She's too compromising: "People think she negotiates on behalf of Baker instead of negotiating with...
...There was a gentleman called the Haj who was the chief of our particular faction, and I guess one of the senior members of Hizballah. He was actually a very pleasant...
...Iacocca himself, who at 67 wanted to remain chairman past his formal retirement date but was now an isolated faction...
Najibullah's latest concession to the peace process came shortly after a major mujahedin faction claimed that it had captured the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, site of a government air base; Kabul denied the claim. Hard- line mujahedin, ignoring the President's offer, vowed to fight...