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1. Still, as much as she thought about it in a larger context for the planet, it was all about which faction of the Brazilians had this money wasn't it? Herndon's faction was the one that would soon blend into the population
2. There was another faction who felt that it was acceptable to do daily business with the locals but retain their own culture with no more 'political boundary' than land ownership, and a third group who wanted to remain in voluntary association like the core of any other ethnic group, but not be required to join one contiguous territory
3. He was of the moderate faction of the Brazilians, he would preserve what he could of their heritage as any other ethnic group would
4. If he moved the crate for them, from one faction to another, that could be considered interference in tribal affairs
5. He was of the 'Culturalist' faction that desired to preserve what they could of Brazilian culture in this new world on a voluntary basis
6. There was another faction that actually wanted to carve out a governed land with a national boundary and laws
7. The common foe is the Anti-elemental faction
8. discussed, as was direct action of the Red Army Faction variety,
9. If the supplier was the Kassikan itself, or some faction within the Kassikan that I
10. “Very good,” he said, “We think he is part of a faction who wants
11. “Which is exactly what Stenarch and his faction will say
12. Despite the ‘aid’ of the one faction of Makii, the only ones she truly trusted in this battle were the Giants, the rest she put down without hesitation
13. The upper-hand passed from one faction to another
14. The question was, which faction should he support? Was it more profitable to stick with Stenarch, or throw his weight behind Theoton? It didn’t take Aetes long to decide
15. She didn’t know which faction, but if he was Telander’s friend, maybe he
16. It was assumed that they were representative of some sort of faction, though it was anyone’s guess from there
17. Amidst all the revolutions which faction has ever occasioned in the government of Amsterdam, the prevailing party has at no time accused their predecessors of infidelity in the administration of the bank
18. In the attacks which those leading men are continually making upon the importance of one another, and in the defence of their own, consists the whole play of domestic faction and ambition
19. Instead of piddling for the little prizes which are to be found in what may be called the paltry raffle of colony faction, they might then hope, from the presumption which men naturally have in their own ability and good fortune, to draw some of the great prizes which sometimes come from the wheel of the great state lottery of British politics
20. But the greater part of these proprietors seldom pretend to understand any thing of the business of the company; and when the spirit of faction happens not to prevail among them, give themselves no trouble about it, but receive contentedly such halfyearly or yearly dividend as the directors think proper to make to them
21. But the factions of the Greeks were almost always violent and sanguinary ; whereas, till the time of the Gracchi, no blood had ever been shed in any Roman faction; and from the time of the Gracchi, the Roman republic may be considered as in reality dissolved
22. In the republics of ancient Greece, particularly in Athens, the ordinary courts of justice consisted of numerous, and therefore disorderly, bodies of people, who frequently decided almost at random, or as clamour, faction, and party-spirit, happened to determine
23. They are more disposed to examine, and more capable of seeing through, the interested complaints of faction and sedition; and they are, upon that account, less apt to be misled into any wanton or unnecessary opposition to the measures of government
24. Times of violent religious controversy have generally been times of equally violent political faction
25. When the parish happened to be situated in a great city, it divided all the inhabitants into two parties; and when that city happened, either to constitute itself a little republic, or to be the head and capital of a little republic, as in the case with many of the considerable cities in Switzerland and Holland, every paltry dispute of this kind, over and above exasperating the animosity of all their other factions, threatened to leave behind it, both a new schism in the church, and a new faction in the state
26. Faction, combined with the interest of smuggling merchants, raised so violent, though so unjust a clamour, against that bill, that the minister thought proper to drop it ; and, from a dread of exciting a clamour of the same kind, none of his successors have dared to resume the project
27. The distance of those provinces from the capital, from the principal seat of the great scramble of faction and ambition, makes them enter less into the views of any of the contending parties, and renders them more indifferent and impartial spectators of the conduct of all
28. In the end, the peace faction did win out and Japan surrendered
29. There is a faction of the public that refuses to admit past atrocities
30. A young Vernon Howell, later renaming himself David Koresh, led part of that group to split off yet again and form their own faction of Davidians
31. Several of Koresh's Davidians were tried for attempted murder of the leader of the original faction in 1987, but were acquitted
32. (The closest to that ever happening was when Texas Governor Rick Perry sought the support of the Republic of Texas militia, which has a faction within it which is white supremacist
33. As of this writing, the treaty is still being debated, with a strong pro war and pro Israel faction in Congress hoping the treaty will fail, looking for an excuse to target Iran with US or Israeli bombing
34. Her approach, writing from the points of view of both whites and Natives, was groundbreaking at the time, and much of the hostility towards her argument came from the old guard, some who viewed Indians with openly racist contempt, and an even larger faction that admired Custer and hold him up as a martyr, an almost Christ like figure whose death was supposedly necessary to “tame” the west
35. But also (I was to find out later), because of family and tribal rivalries his movement was to split, only twenty-nine years after his passing, into the tribal faction who became the Umayyad dynasty of Sunni Moslems and the familial faction who became the Shia schismatic opposition
36. Those who are skeptical for any reason, or just generally not totally convinced, of the truth of the claims that these tenets make, become a dissident faction within a believing movement
37. As a faction grows, disagreements widen to the point of eventual separation into two or more competing and antagonistic parts, each contending that their view is superior to the others, or all others
38. “Well, Christina, if I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction,” he hisses
39. “Abnegation is a strange faction, I have to tell you
40. “What’s the point of beating him up? We’re in the same faction!”
41. “And you and I will never be in the same faction
42. This is my faction now
43. These are the clothes my faction wears
44. Which faction could he have come from?
45. I don’t know how easy it is to find out what another faction does during initiation, but I suspect it’s not that easy
46. “Have you ever read the faction manifestos?” says Will
47. The faction manifestos were written after the factions formed
48. It is because, in the brief moments that I have loved it here, I saw a faction worth saving
49. “While you were off having fun, I was doing the dirty work of defending your old faction, eliminating interfaction conflict…”
50. “However, perhaps the answer lies not in a morally bereft man, but in the corrupted ideals of an entire faction