How To Use Factious In A Sentence
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These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
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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
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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
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Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the new world.
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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
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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.
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He hoped that Philip would unite the factious Greek cities into a confederacy and then turn to the great project of invading Persia.
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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.
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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.
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Christians are factious and unpeaceable, so far they are no Christians.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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But he states, ‘The University must not be complacent, and must avoid factiousness and ultra-Conservatism.’
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The distribution to their own friends of the 'loaves and fishes' was, as Morier says, the one steady aim of all aspirants to power; and measures of reform, much needed in education, in commerce, in law, were doomed to sterility by the factiousness of the men who should have carried them out.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
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At this moment one of the popular party answered him factiously that they would not go out and did not want a war, and for thus answering was dragged by the arm and knocked about by Polydamidas.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a _Factious Lecturer_,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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The Lower House, however, was beginning to be, on the whole, somewhat factiously disposed.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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Arcand tells his story through a running montage of TV interviews and footage from a factious documentary filmmaker.
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But gender issues are political issues and, without a set of established principles to guide much of our social transitions, gender politics are like all politics - messy and factious.
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His failure to effect reform or root out corruption after Walpole's fall was thought by many to reveal factiousness and self-seeking and he was accused of avarice.
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But where is the plea which we can hand down to a candid posterity in exculpation, wholly or partially, of the parricidal act which has robbed the American nation of a father, every American citizen of a friend, factious parties of their most generous judge, a relentless enemy of their best protector, and the whole world of an HONEST MAN?
The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln
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They are not practical instruments of warfare, though they genuinely reflect the factious bellicose tendencies of their builders.
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The betters are the factious noise of the alley, or the gamesters beadsmen that pray for them.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Great leaders, like Sumner and Conkling, could not be burlesqued; they were more grotesque than ridicule could make them; even Grant, who rarely sparkled in epigram, became witty on their account; but their egotism and factiousness were no laughing matter.
President Grant (1869)
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Whatever stress may be laid upon this, we find it hard to vindicate Burke from the charge of factiousness.
Burke
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The penal laws against the Catholics, the iniquitous restrictions on Irish trade and industry, the selfish factiousness of the parliament, the jobbery and corruption of administration, the absenteeism of the landlords, and all the other too familiar elements of that mischievous and fatal system, were then in full force.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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What action soever of thine therefore that either immediately or afar off, hath not reference to the common good, that is an exorbitant and disorderly action; yea it is seditious; as one among the people who from such and such a consent and unity, should factiously divide and separate himself.
Meditations
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I understood also that such a report was desired, to clear away any objections to the operations of the re-organized Company which might be factiously raised.
Canada and the States
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Lastly, that it can not be thought that the Supreme Being will envy those inferior beings that worship or honor which is bestowed upon them; nor suspect that any of these inferior deities will factiously go about to set up themselves against the Supreme God.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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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
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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The whole of the first act consists of one emphatic jeremiad by Cicero, about the desperate condition of Rome as it then was, its factiousness, its servility, -- a jeremiad which is continued at the end of the act, by the chorus, in rhymed stanzas.
The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
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The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon.
The Art of Letters
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Politically he was naïvely ambitious and factious; he owes the epithet ‘Good’ only to his patronage of men of letters, including Lydgate and Capgrave.
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Accordingly he repaired to the Hotel de Ville, and gave to the Municipal Council so distinct an account of his measures, and of his reason for taking them, that, though Danton and some of his more factious colleagues reproached him for exhibiting what they called a needless distrust of the people, the majority of the Council approved of his conduct, and dismissed him to return to his duties.
The Life of Marie Antoinette
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Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one
The Scholemaster
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‘So easy still it proves in factious times, with public zeal to cancel private crimes’, wrote John Dryden.
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I hold that whosoever sets up factious opposition to his leader factiously opposes his own safety.
Anabasis
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The passengers were sympathetic with one another, notwithstanding their recent factiousness, and were especially kind to a poor little brown baby, which they handed round and nursed by turns, but the heat, the filth, and the stench of the ship defied description.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Although the 10 songs on The Woods include some of Sleater-Kinney's least subtle speechifying - the factiousness of ‘Entertain’ being a case in point - their playing has never been more inspired, or better captured.
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Abd-el-Hafid, proclaimed Sultan at Fez, was recognized by the whole country, but he found himself unable to cope with the factious tribes (those outside the Blad-el-Makhzen, or _governed country_).
In Morocco
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Putting a group of big-brand marketers in the same room can sometimes result in friction, factiousness and fisticuffs.
Bill Robinson: When Marketing Minds Collide
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The Assembly continued, notwithstanding the war exigencies of the times, in their factiousness, as their persistence in some measures was considered.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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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
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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What's instructive is to look at how the Obama campaign responded: challenge the facticity and factiousness of the ACORN story -- and get it explained about how ridiculous it is, and let the pictures of the McCain/Palin supporters diffuse themselves across the i-net.
Colin Powell Endorses Obama
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In 1791 the main periodical in Lima denounced the cafe as a factious institution, likely to promote social disturbance.
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Politicians were seen not only as factious, selfish, and incompetent; they were also regarded as corrupt.
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Royal authority had been brought to a low ebb by Mary, and during James's minority the factious nobility lived in a state of civil war.
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Tissaphernes whilst he was with Ariaeus, and was factiously opposed to himself, plotting how to win over the whole army to him, as a means of winning the good graces of Tissaphernes.
Anabasis
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Lee also allowed the factious sexual harassment case to become a media circus without careful consideration of the damage it might cause to Twu's family.
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A new government in which the dominant figure was Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, proved too factious to last.
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The slanderer and traducer was Menon; so, at any rate, he suspected, because he knew that he had had meetings with Tissaphernes whilst he was with Ariaeus, and was factiously opposed to himself, plotting how to win over the whole army to him, as a means of winning the good graces of Tissaphernes.
Anabasis
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He felt the Congress might be inclined to factious disputes and intrigues, but he also opposed giving unchecked power to a president.
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But this view of our history did not take root, and now the usual opinion on Bent is that he was a factious opponent of the good governor who stood up for convicts.
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Would President Lincoln have been able or willing to defend the sovereignty of these factious and slaveholding tribes?
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He has opposed the Court and the Prince alike, and the magistrates themselves regard him as a dangerous man, with those notions a lui about venality, and his power and individuality, and therefore is factious, and when the Court demands a Frondeur there will be no one except perhaps old Mole to cry out in his defence, and
Stray Pearls
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As Mark E. Neely Jr. has suggested, party competition in the midst of the Civil War was deeply factious, leading some politicians to think ‘only of electoral victory in the short term.’