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

Rodríguez’s tone shift highlighted the balance that her shaky interim leadership is testing out as she tries to withstand U.S. pressure while keeping the country’s so-called revolutionary government from dissolving into factional infighting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Unfortunately, factional friction is pretty much all that Martin has presided over since.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2025

But its inevitable outcome, he argues, is mob rule, bitter factional division, the debasement of civic culture and finally some version of Caesarism.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 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