Factional synonyms

When the convention met and the balloting began, the contest along these factional lines started in earnest.

Moreover, factional strife broke out within the party itself; Adams and Hamilton became alienated, and members of Adams's own cabinet virtually looked to Hamilton rather than to the president as their political chief.

The factional strife in the Republican party continued, a number of efforts being made to impeach Governor Harrison Reed (1813-1899).

In England the inevitable conflict of interests between the new mercantile power, growing conscious of its national strength, and the old, standing insistant on the letter of its privileges, was postponed by the factional discord out of which the Hansa in 1474 dexterously snatched a renewal of its rights.