(n.) One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
(n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
(n.) Tumult; discord; dissension.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(2) For US allies, trying to follow Washington’s lead over the past four months has been akin to trying to drive in convoy behind a car swerving violently at high speed, as the competing factions inside lunge for the steering wheel.
(3) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(4) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
(5) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(6) The strongly pro-EU and vocal Alistair Burt was whipped back into the Foreign Office where he had been before, while Steve Baker of the ultra-hardline anti-EU faction was made a minister in Davis’s department.
(7) The dramatic reconciliation of the warring factions comes as the credit crunch and worsening newspaper advertising market has left INM facing a funding crisis.
(8) Despite his advocacy on behalf of leftists and nationalists, there were those who believed he connived to ensure that the left faction did not get the upper hand in the PAP.
(9) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.
(10) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(11) The latest drone strike in Yemen, on 20 January , demonstrated that the strikes can occur despite the chaos of the US-allied Saudi Arabian war on the ruling Houthi faction.
(12) With the July conference emerging as the tightest numbers game in recent memory, the right faction has made it known that it wants Young Labor’s three-person delegation to be comprised of three rightwing delegates.
(13) Sheridan accused them of a conspiracy: many were members of an internal SSP grouping, the United Left, which he accused of being an "anti-Sheridan faction".
(14) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(15) Meanwhile, Qatar and Turkey provide funding and weapons to Islamists and other factions in the west.
(16) It is debauched ethos of mateship and factional solidarity linked to fundraising on both sides,” he said.
(17) But, according to Ruddick, the state council is a “gerrymander”, with factional leaders creating new “on-paper” branches that meet at most once a year in order to elect a delegate to state council and keep hold of “the numbers” – presenting Liberal reformers with exactly the same structural impediment to change as is faced by Labor.
(18) Despite their crimes, Sharif’s faction of the Pakistan Muslim League has been accused of striking electoral pacts with them in his heartlands of Punjab province.
(19) There is no future in the politics of faction or deselection any more than there is in the politics of splits.
(20) Kiir and Machar fought for different factions within the country’s liberation movement – and represent the country’s two largest ethnic groups, respectively the Dinka and the Nuer.
Factorial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a factory.
(a.) Related to factorials.
(n.) A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.
(n.) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(4) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(5) One hundred and twenty blood pressure measurements were taken from each subject with two different instruments (one on each arm) in a 2 (supine or standing position) X 2 (left or right arm) X 3 (three different sets of pairwise instrument comparisons) X 5 (five one-minute interval measurements per phase) factorial design.
(6) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(7) The experiment had a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with two nest holding times and two storage methods.
(8) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(9) Using confirmatory factor analysis on an independent sample (N = 377), these dimensions were tested for factorial invariance across spouse and nonspouse caregivers and between caregivers of persons with cancer and those caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease.
(10) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
(11) Aspects of health were studied in a sample of factory workers who changed their pattern of working from 'fortnight about' to three advancing shifts.
(12) Curbelo said that the caucus is an “ideas factory” but there are no consensus solutions to go with the group’s name.
(13) The relationships between personality characteristics and semantic habits were explored with use of The Sixteen Personality Factory Questionnaire, Form E, and a measure of semantic habits.
(14) Former factory workers of Merthyr Tydfil, you have been warned.
(15) About 120 South Korean firms run factories in the border town of Kaesong, with 53,000 North Koreans working there.
(16) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
(17) Inception rate of persons was 0.73 versus 0.48, and point prevalence rates 0.002 versus 0.001, whilst period prevalence rates were 0.016 versus 0.011 for the study and control factories respectively.
(18) The agency confirmed it was investigating the allegations made by whistleblowers to the Guardian about hygiene standards in specific factories relating to the spread of campylobacter bacteria - the most common form of food poisoning in the UK.
(19) Chris Hagan, managing director of the factory, says: "If you chopped them into smaller pieces, you could sell them to B&Q."
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women at work in a Bangladeshi garment factory.