factional
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Ordained a priest in 2002, she became the first female Bishop of London in 2018, only four years after the church began allowing women bishops after years of bitter factional wrangling.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Ms. Machado’s acceptance by a national majority reduces uncertainty, discourages factional violence, and channels political energy toward institutional restoration instead of confrontation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
However since then the group has been mired in factional in-fighting including a row over the handling of £800,000 of donations.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
Unfortunately, factional friction is pretty much all that Martin has presided over since.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2025
Because of this, they would encourage factional strife in some of their subject towns in order to control them more easily.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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