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  • Our clan, the Plain Janes, has splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival factions.†   (source)
  • …. concern that secret factions within the Masons exerted considerable control over political and financial systems.†   (source)
  • The Communists worked for the benefit of the poor, and united a nation shattered for decades into warring factions.†   (source)
  • Also, Cecilia had resolved afresh to be with her brother on the terrace; it was therefore important to be with the winning faction and push to a quick conclusion.†   (source)
  • "We should split into factions for safety," General Doppel urged.†   (source)
  • Some years ago, around the turn of the last century, a splinter faction emerged among our people—a coterie of disaffected peculiars with dangerous ideas.†   (source)
  • There is a certain grim satis faction to be derived from struggling upwards, however slowly; but the bulk of one's time is necessarily spent in the extreme squalor of a high camp, when even this solace is lacking.†   (source)
  • It was divided into all sorts of quarrelsome factions, and a good dose of public executions had taken the edge off their appetite for defiance.†   (source)
  • There are factions who want you to serve their interests and no one else's.†   (source)
  • Rather than squabbling over sites, he lectured, the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed, everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.†   (source)
  • The faction she led in the Sub-Deb girls' club had been admonished to stop wearing low-cut dresses, smoking in the rest rooms, and sneaking out of class to smooch with boys in the band-instrument storeroom.†   (source)
  • The suspension came after a school fight which involved a war between "Insanes" and "Maniacs," two factions of the "Folks" ("Folks" are those gangs allied with the Spanish Cobras and Gangster Disciples; the "People" are gangs tied to the Latin Kings and Vice Lords, symbolic of the complicated structures most inner-city gangs had come to establish).†   (source)
  • Factions.†   (source)
  • Peking switched its patronage to the newest, most militant faction of the CPI(M)—the Naxalites—who had staged an armed insurrection in Naxalbari, a village in Bengal.†   (source)
  • The result was three different factions among the scrivs, each using a different cataloging system, each firmly believing theirs was the best.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy and data and personal charm, he seemed to say, could win over all sides, and unite all factions against the bacillus, their common enemy after all.†   (source)
  • In the sundry church wars that were a living part of Maycomb Methodism, Herbert could be counted on as the one person to keep his head, talk sense, and reconcile the more primitive elements of the congregation with the Young Turk faction.†   (source)
  • It's a patchwork quilt of alliances, factions, and intrigues."†   (source)
  • There is, however, a small dissenting faction.†   (source)
  • Indeed, a sizable faction refused to accept the fact that two unknown men, two thieving strangers, were solely responsible.†   (source)
  • Then came a five-minute segment of Lebanese news because the Shiite Moslems in Lebanon are a strong and violent faction backed by Iran, loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini and a three-minute wrap-up of world news, which meant some negative report about America.†   (source)
  • Fighters from both factions eye their leader warily.†   (source)
  • Beatrice couldn't make out what faction they belonged to, or if they were simply common thugs.†   (source)
  • He had suffered a good deal to show that he was no coward and now he had the satis- faction of knowing that he was worth something to his new friends.†   (source)
  • When we'd been four instead of two, Caroline and my dad had represented the sloppy, easygoing faction.†   (source)
  • An older man from the state of Yucatan who was outside of the factions but was treated with respect.†   (source)
  • We did not believe that the terrorist factions knew we were aware of this tactic.†   (source)
  • "We've been hearing for some time about a dissident faction inside their intelligence community, one that does not especially love the Soviets.†   (source)
  • Our village split into factions.†   (source)
  • Over the last 20+ years dating back to the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks in Lebanon, various factions of radical Islamic Terrorists have been committing heinous acts of terrorism against the free world.†   (source)
  • The most nerve-racking speculation was that there were factions of the military loyal to Lin Biao who could be attempting a coup to topple Mao's government.†   (source)
  • Mortenson tried to catch his eye, hoping Changazi would speak up and put an end to the madness, but a heated argument broke out in Balti, as two factions quickly formed behind Akhmalu and Janjungpa.†   (source)
  • "You don't think certain factions in Russia might be a little angry at you for pulling out of their deal?"†   (source)
  • He'd met the Swiss three years ago while working with underground Russian factions determined to equalize the world's military powers through the threat of biological weapons.†   (source)
  • Toward the middle of February, the various factions began to firm up their ranks as the entire spectrum of Zionist youth movements moved into the school in a drive for membership, the second such drive since I had entered the college.†   (source)
  • Few years later, they were disbanded, though there are rumors on and off about a faction of SafeNet going underground.†   (source)
  • "From what we're told, it was a contract from a crazy jihad faction out of Beirut.†   (source)
  • Yet Adams remained pointedly courteous to both men, as to others of the anti-independence faction.†   (source)
  • A faction of the staff suggests immediate termination of SSW-89-58, but this advice is considered and rejected.†   (source)
  • If Sebastian wished to splinter the Clave into factions, and I am sure he did, he chose a good way to do it.†   (source)
  • Despite the Red Branch's assurances, Charles could not quell his fear that some small faction of the guild had survived and would seek vengeance.†   (source)
  • As they contended for rule of the city, the factions became known as the tigers and elephants, respectively.†   (source)
  • Big enough for them to have deadly factions within their ranks.†   (source)
  • One of the fighting factions out there-I don't know which one-has seized our terminal and imposed a 'departure tax' on trains.†   (source)
  • While Jack was on leave taking care of Sophie, Hoagland told me how Jack had been abducted in Cyprus by a red insurgent faction in sixty-four.†   (source)
  • First, factional paralysis made Italy weak on the international stage, and, second, it exaggerated inconsistency and volatility in internal matters.†   (source)
  • The most common source of factions is the unequal distribution of property.†   (source)
  • Surely if there were any truth in the notion that reading fiction greatly increased our capacity for empathy then college English departments, which have by far the densest concentration of fiction readers in human history, would be legendary for their absence of back-stabbing, competitive ill-will, factional rage, and egocentric self-promoters; they'd be the one place where disputes are most often quickly and amiably resolved by mutual empathetic engagement.†   (source)
  • Those factions would never have allowed this technology transfer.†   (source)
  • Postulating then some militant faction proclaiming the great moment finally at hand.†   (source)
  • The victim was a teacher named Kadow, head of a liberal political faction which the Nazis considered inimical to their interests.†   (source)
  • Everyone loved squirrel, although there was one purist faction in the class that liked squirrel meat without any other embellishments and another who preferred their squirrel with a thick gravy and a heavy stew.†   (source)
  • He would not run as a Democrat, or as the candidate of any faction or newspaper—or even resign from the Senate.†   (source)
  • With Monarch and D'Courtney in my pocket I can do better than help your faction break the Guild.†   (source)
  • Other companies, other countries, various factions and plotters.†   (source)
  • Even after war broke out between his faction and the others, Mammy had refused to blame him.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for the offer, but I think your faction needs you more," I say, turning off the faucet.†   (source)
  • He sees my faction as the cruelest of the five, and nothing more.†   (source)
  • Two factions were fighting to lead the revolution in the factory.†   (source)
  • You can see that most people attending this meeting are comrades from the Redemptionist faction.†   (source)
  • As the ETO movement continued to develop, a third faction appeared: the Survivors.†   (source)
  • I left him to grieve with his faction as I grieve with mine.†   (source)
  • I can't even trust the leaders of my faction.†   (source)
  • Therese of the faction-less joins us there, eyeing me curiously.†   (source)
  • We're not supposed to fraternize with other faction members.†   (source)
  • I held a grenade and attacked a homemade tank from the Jinggang Mountain faction.†   (source)
  • Fought between two Red Guard factions, it lasted from April 23 to July 27 in 1968.†   (source)
  • "Well, all the faction transfers have a secret club," I say, leaning back in my chair.†   (source)
  • What if they tell me that I'm not cut out for any faction?†   (source)
  • Within the organization were complicated factions and divisions of opinion.†   (source)
  • It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything—even the way I walk.†   (source)
  • He stands among the other initiates, shaking hands with a faction transfer, a boy who was Candor.†   (source)
  • Tori yells, and everyone repeats her, all voices joining together, regardless of faction.†   (source)
  • Aren't you going to reprimand me for abandoning my faction and seeking out my brother?†   (source)
  • I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming faction-less.†   (source)
  • I walk toward Faction History, chewing on my lower lip.†   (source)
  • Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.†   (source)
  • He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did.†   (source)
  • "More closely than Erudite and any other faction," he says.†   (source)
  • Have you never heard the phrase 'faction before blood'?†   (source)
  • Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference.†   (source)
  • When this is over, I won't have a faction.†   (source)
  • Their faction values honesty and sees the truth as black and white, so that is what they wear.†   (source)
  • But whatever we agree to do here, we do together, as a faction.†   (source)
  • So unless you want me to shoot you, take a seat with your fellow ex-faction members.†   (source)
  • The faction manifestos were written after the factions formed.†   (source)
  • I just want to feel like I've actually left the old faction.†   (source)
  • And that he will do anything to protect his faction, even if it means sacrificing the Divergent.†   (source)
  • Someone else yells, "You are not the leader of our faction!"†   (source)
  • On the edges stand the sixteen-year-olds of every faction.†   (source)
  • You think you're the only one who doesn't just blindly do what your faction tells you to?†   (source)
  • My brother, my selfless brother, a faction transfer?†   (source)
  • Is your allegiance with your current faction, Tobias?†   (source)
  • If it were me, I wouldn't want to get in trouble with your faction.†   (source)
  • On Choosing Day, she told me to leave my faction and find a safer one.†   (source)
  • Aren't you supposed to be running a faction and planning a war?†   (source)
  • Just because we were in the same faction doesn't mean we get along.†   (source)
  • You mean you can just take a stroll through every faction's data whenever you want?†   (source)
  • The walls are made of glass—I guess I know which faction designed my school.†   (source)
  • Our faction has had a close relationship with Erudite for as long as any of us can remember.†   (source)
  • I know she's only asking because faction rules dictate that she does.†   (source)
  • I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood.†   (source)
  • Your stupid ex-faction isn't just insulting Abnegation anymore.†   (source)
  • I've never seen the Amity armed before," the faction-less woman with the knife says.†   (source)
  • I'm loyal to my faction for that reason—because there's nowhere else I could possibly be.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's a good idea to have more than one faction in control of the government.†   (source)
  • The first girl to choose decides on Amity, the same faction from which she came.†   (source)
  • I have a plan to save some of your faction's data, but I need your help.†   (source)
  • And one of Erudite's missions as a faction was to become both—essential and enriching.†   (source)
  • I will cut into my hand and sprinkle my blood into the bowl of the faction I choose.†   (source)
  • Not even after your faction's leaders decided to join in a plot to overthrow the government?†   (source)
  • I mean that you are the only disposable faction.†   (source)
  • That's my family they're talking about, that's my faction!†   (source)
  • Still, while we may carry our names from family to faction, we rarely mention them.†   (source)
  • As if coming from the most hated faction wasn't enough, now I'm showing them up, too.†   (source)
  • What will he think of my friends, my faction?†   (source)
  • I hope your faction doesn't change their decision to make this compound a safe house.†   (source)
  • But the reach of each faction is not limited to these areas.†   (source)
  • Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way.†   (source)
  • I may not be an Abnegation-loving faction traitor.†   (source)
  • Divergent or not, this faction is where I belong.†   (source)
  • And now I am about to finish their work, the work my old faction died for.†   (source)
  • The best way to ensure that half our faction doesn't die is to sacrifice one life.†   (source)
  • Something about your dad, and the real reason you left your old faction.†   (source)
  • Don't you remember from our Faction History book?†   (source)
  • The faction members are milling around everywhere.†   (source)
  • We also take the phrase 'faction before blood' very seriously here.†   (source)
  • You have done more for this faction than any other person.†   (source)
  • So you are a faction transfer, are you not?†   (source)
  • We learned about faction jobs in school.†   (source)
  • But choosing a different faction means I forsake my family.†   (source)
  • We're here to save the Erudite data that the faction-less want to destroy," I say.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter what faction I really belong in.†   (source)
  • It is my fault, of course, that that was never a possibility, because I chose another faction.†   (source)
  • It is because, in the brief moments that I have loved it here, I saw a faction worth saving.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry; I forgot that faction members rarely discuss their old factions.†   (source)
  • I recognize it from my Faction History textbook, the unit on Erudite and medicine.†   (source)
  • I turn away from the window and press through the crowd to the Faction History classroom.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that I have left my old faction behind, I don't want to criticize it yet.†   (source)
  • We are the only faction that could divide like this.†   (source)
  • "Have you ever read the faction manifestos?" says Will.†   (source)
  • I am the only thing that kept him in the faction he wanted to leave.†   (source)
  • You are also a faction transfer, are you not?†   (source)
  • Even if individuals are capable of it, the leaders of a faction can't possibly be.†   (source)
  • Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness.†   (source)
  • I sag under the weight of the members of my parents' faction, their lives, their tears.†   (source)
  • We could use your help here, and I know you are like-minded about the faction system—†   (source)
  • So now the entire faction is brain-dead, obedient, and trained to kill.†   (source)
  • They will send all the data from the Erudite computers to the other faction computers.†   (source)
  • …. by venturing into another faction's headquarters.†   (source)
  • By most faction standards, he is a young leader—only thirty-nine years old.†   (source)
  • The thought of my former faction sends a tremor through my hands.†   (source)
  • Abnegation is a strange faction, I have to tell you.†   (source)
  • The Amity don't ask questions; they just let us dissolve into their faction.†   (source)
  • And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction.†   (source)
  • I don't care what faction you chose," she says, touching her hands to my cheeks.†   (source)
  • Hopefully we won't have to worry about faction distinctions anymore by the time this is over.†   (source)
  • Faction transfers are not really supposed to discuss their old factions once they become members.†   (source)
  • I pause for a moment, remembering how he held his faction's influence over our heads at the meeting.†   (source)
  • They are arranged in five sections, according to faction.†   (source)
  • How could I possibly know what a corrupt faction looks like?†   (source)
  • I didn't think our faction would be that stupid," he says.†   (source)
  • I don't know if you've noticed, but we are in the same faction now.†   (source)
  • I think of Candor's rhyming song, which calls us the cruelest faction.†   (source)
  • They wear Amity clothes, like me, but also like me, it's obvious what faction they are really in.†   (source)
  • A faction of happy-go-lucky do-gooders without a selfish bone in their bodies.†   (source)
  • I am one of the leaders of your new faction!" shouts a man at the other end of the roof.†   (source)
  • But this is not what I was taught to expect of factionlessness.†   (source)
  • Why did I never wonder how Eric and Jeanine knew that I had aptitude for three factions?†   (source)
  • The color has also come to signify their faction.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry; I forgot that faction members rarely discuss their old factions.†   (source)
  • And you and I will never be in the same faction.†   (source)
  • Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in.†   (source)
  • Some of the Erudite texts called them the 'enriching factions.'†   (source)
  • The other factions see the Dauntless a certain way.†   (source)
  • What happened to our friends, our peers, our leaders, our factions?†   (source)
  • All the factions," he says, "and the city.†   (source)
  • I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem.†   (source)
  • More than family, our factions are where we belong.†   (source)
  • Don't you think someone with the aptitude for multiple factions might have a loyalty problem?†   (source)
  • Why are most of the Divergent weak-willed, God-fearing nobodies from Abnegation, of all factions?†   (source)
  • So I take it Amity wasn't one of the factions you had an aptitude for," he says, grinning.†   (source)
  • The factions are destroyed, and it was all stupid to begin with.†   (source)
  • "Tensions between our factions are higher than ever," she says.†   (source)
  • In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.†   (source)
  • It called them the 'essential factions'—without them, we would be incapable of survival.†   (source)
  • "Let's just say," says Tobias, "that for some, death is preferable to factionlessness."†   (source)
  • Faction transfers are not really supposed to discuss their old factions once they become members.†   (source)
  • Some Dauntless must volunteer to do jobs that traditionally belong to other factions.†   (source)
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