Splinter groups

Usage examples of factions.

During the next two months, there was a great deal of ceremonial visiting by the Mediators and the Envoys, so that all the factions in Shavla and all the main noble houses in Deora could make a start in integration.

There are factions who disapprove of the peace negotiations, and who would prefer to kill their own accredited envoy rather than submit to an enforced peace.

Nerlin had a very broad support base, plus the Harknell support, and might have won the nomination for Supreme Commander himself but for his traditional antipathy towards one or two significant urban factions, which were currently in the ascendant.

And if both factions were now to call in their alliance-links against the Reinals, who were, after all, mere newcomers to the nobility, there could be a big spill of positions in the high command.

Decision Group are safely under guard until their factions can be contacted and asked to decide whether they will join the new Peace Alliance or not.

Very different from the Harknells, or the other factions he had studied closely.

He must direct the observers on the space transport to pay more attention to the smaller country factions, those who mainly kept out of Prime and did not form part of the central power group.

Unfortunately, as Channa pointed out to Joran, the Nestar alliances were with minor factions too widely scattered to mobilise quickly or with any degree of secrecy.

Father and I have had some interesting discussions lately with members of the other factions in the Decision Group.

Buildings were damaged and blood flowed as it had not done for decades, for the war against Deora had maintained the unity of all factions, whatever their individual interests.

All those contributions were anonymous, supposedly to prevent the factions from using them for propaganda.

There were always factions outside C-K willing to pay good prices for enemy agents.

Regals, increased their power, smaller factions faltered and fell under their sway.

Mars was dotted with bankrupt factions, financially captured and transported to the Martian surface by the T-K plutocrats.

Dozens of factions were quarantined in cheerless redemption camps, isolated from one another, their lives pared to a grim frugality.