In addition to the hostility between the Germanic conquerors and the subject Roman population, factional strife had broken out over the succession to the throne.
The individual cities also were greatly weakened by incessant factional strife within their walls.
However, Vespasian's elevation to the principate caused a suspension of hostilities for ten months, during which factional strife raged fiercely within the city.
The senatorial class especially distinguished itself by courage and ability, and there are no evidences of factional strife hampering the conduct of the war.
His absence from the country for three years had softened whatever asperities had grown out of political of factional differences, and had quickened anew the grateful sense of his inestimable services in the war.
He was entirely free from factional entanglements, and was considered by many wise political leaders to be a peculiarly available candidate.
Notwithstanding the fact that the very best arrangements had been made at Washington and in the states for the running of the radical machine, everywhere there were factional fights from the beginning.
The years which intervened between the tribuneship of Tiberius Gracchus and that of his brother Gaius were filled with internal factional discord at Rome, but without any decisive results.
The battle, if it came, would be as factional as the fight of twenty-five years ago, when the Hollmans held the store and the Souths the court-house.
State power was still largely a weapon in factional hands, and in his country the Hollmans were the officeholders.
A central railroad through Illinois seemed likely to quell factional and sectional quarrels in local politics; to merge Northern and Southern interests within the Commonwealth; and to add to the fiscal resources of State and nation.
There seems to be no reason to doubt that Dixon moved in this matter on his own initiative;[454] but he was a friend to Atchison and he could not have been wholly ignorant of the Missouri factional quarrel.
A factional quarrel among members of his own party gave Douglass his reward for services to the cause of Democracy, and his first political office.
When the delegates reassembled in Baltimore, the factional quarrel had lost none of its bitterness.
Again, factional fights might arise over some trivial matter as an immediate cause, in a community or a region where numbers of men fairly equal were separated in self-interest.
It is very painful to me that you in Missouri cannot or will not settle your factionalquarrel among yourselves.
With the retirement of the backwoodsmen from Philadelphia to their homes, sprang up one of the angriest factional contests that Pennsylvania had ever known.
The struggle for place is continued as a factional fight within the newly ruling crowd.
As long, therefore, as the outcome of the business was still in dispute, they and the soldiers and the individuals were in suspense, some wishing and praying and reporting one thing and others the opposite, as always in factional disturbances.
When, accordingly, this news also was brought, the men did not cease any the more from factional strife.
The Romans, defeated, gave up their war against the barbarians and likewise received great detriment from the greed and factional differences of the soldiers.
Administrative centres for the surrounding districts, their inhabitants were mainly functionaries and hangers-on, who varied the sleepy monotony of their existence by factional quarrels and political intrigues.
For four years he ruled while the gulf between liberals and conservatives widened day by day, and factional jealousies and ambitions within the dominant party became menacing.
This Constitution remained in force for twenty-two years, during which civil wars and factional disputes continually racked Colombia.
Others urged the same point before the king, but they were unaware that it was beyond the power of any king to lay the evil spirit of factional strife.
This man had been banished because of factional rivalry.
He believed that neglect of the classics was the cause of the factionalstrife in his kingdom.
From the time of their separation in 1594 until the death of Elizabeth, the Lord Admiral's company represented the Cecil-Howard, and Burbage's company the Essex factional and political interests in their covert stage polemics.
Any attempt to develop the revolution further by overthrowing or opposing the first revolutionary government could therefore serve only factional and not class interests.
Some of them had embraced peace and laid down their weapons, whereas others had committed their interests to the care of Diæus and were still involved in factional turmoil.
Hence not unnaturally, since they supplemented each other partly by their likeness and partly by their differences, they created an extremely strong factional feeling which remained even after the death of both.
Fulvius induced Cephallenia to capitulate and reduced to order the Peloponnesus, which was in a state of factional turmoil.
For in this way a report reached Macedonia that he was dead and a factionaluprising took place; Philip, consequently, fearing that he should be deprived of his kingdom, hastened to Macedonia.
No sooner did outsiders, planning to wreck their influence, raise factional issues to the end that dissension might make them weaker, than the tribunes actually attached themselves some to one party, some to another.
Factional fighting between the government and its opponents remains a drag on economic revitalization, with GDP growth likely to be no more than 1.
Parties have been regularly mere cliques and party politics only factional strife.
None the less the Republican forces continue to be so embarrassed by factional strife as to be not really formidable.
A tenure of power which not even the financial crisis of 1873 could break was, however, sacrificed through factional bickerings.
Their tenure was prolonged to 1879 and might have been continued beyond that date but for the recurrence of factional strife within their ranks.
During the larger part of this Unionist decade the Liberal party, rent by factional disputes and personal rivalries, afforded but ineffective opposition.
The first was accomplished, very ineffectively, through the electoral measure of 1896; the second, by reason of factional strife, was not accomplished at all.
He seemed to be deeply steeped in the revolutionary factional squabbles.
The bitterness of the old factional feeling largely died out during the disturbances which succeeded the murder of Flores.
Factional civil war had broken out in the interior of the revolted provinces, and the imperial forces were joined by Carvalho's local enemies.
The longer the tyrant reigned, the less men remembered their own factional divisions.
Negotiations were begun with the Argentine government which was only prevented by lack of money and internal factional quarrels from undertaking an aggressive war against Brazilian territory.
From these opposing opinions arise party prejudices and factional strife, and earnestness should be reckoned a virtue, even should the reasoning finally prove faulty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "factional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
