Word: factionalized
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...Libyan jets of Lebanese faction disturbs the president's blissful slumber. As Arlo Guthrie has said unto...
...aide to Watt, Hodel had been an ardent champion of more oil and coal exploration and other commercial development of federal lands. While an official of a federal power authority in the Pacific Northwest, he denounced the environmental movement as having "fallen into the hands of a small, arrogant faction dedicated to bringing our society to a halt." Although he patiently listened to conservationists make their pitches to his Energy Department, he also helped kill a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency under William Ruckelshaus to take some action against acid rain, rather than just study the problem. Complains...
...argument focused on electoral tactics as much as ideology. "It is in not being faithful to these [Socialist] values that we have suffered," declared Education Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of the party's left-wing faction. Rocard attacked the government and the party for attempting to push through educational reforms that would have extended state authority over private schools. After more than a million people protested in Paris this past fall, the Socialists scrapped the plan and settled for a series of piecemeal measures. "How could we have failed to see that the real challenge before...
Indeed, the dominant conservative faction finds the protracted pursuit of appeals wasteful and diversionary, and has encouraged the lower courts to process the backlog of death penalty cases swiftly. As those backed-up cases now come surging through the courts, however, many observers are concerned that the sheer numbers will cause judicial corners to be cut, and that convicts will go to the executioner having had imperfect legal representation. One of Stephens' main appeals arguments was rejected, for instance, because his lawyers filed the motions late...
...voters was the Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, the remnant of the revolutionary New Jewel Movement, which seized power from Gairy in 1979. The M.B.P.M., headed by former Industrial Development Minister Kendrick Radix, was named after Maurice Bishop, the charismatic New Jewel founder who was assassinated by a hard-line faction of his leftist party six days before U.S. troops arrived on Grenada. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members for the murder of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers was stalled last week by procedural wrangling...