How To Use factious In A Sentence
- These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
- But with your own idea that under a single general there will be less factiousness than when there were many, be assured that in choosing some other than me you will not find me factious. Anabasis
- Certes, if thou hast chuckled over their factious and festivous descriptions, or hadst thy mind filled with pleasure at the strange and pleasant turns of fortune which they record, verily, I have also simpered when I beheld a second storey with attics, that has arisen on the basis of my small domicile at Gandercleugh, the walls having been aforehand pronounced by Deacon Barrow to be capable of enduring such an elevation. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the new world.
- This was, without question, what the managers wanted, and so his trouble began: for, on the 30th of July following, "the lords of council order letters to be directed, to charge William Gordon of Earlstoun to compear before them -- to answer for his seditious and factious carriage:" that was, his refusing to comply with prelacy, and hear the curates, and for his favouring and hearing the outed ministers. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- Sher Shah's son Islam Shah held on to power until 1553 and following his death the Sur dynasty lost most of its clout due to factious strife and severe famine.
- He hoped that Philip would unite the factious Greek cities into a confederacy and then turn to the great project of invading Persia.
- As proponents of checks and balances note, government that allows factiousness can protect the rights and interests of minorities by preventing a large majority from coalescing and dominating a polity.
- From its romanticized beginnings to its factious present state - there are half a dozen forms of Capoeira currently in existence - the game is hard to pigeonhole.
- Christians are factious and unpeaceable, so far they are no Christians. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.