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faction fight

noun

  1. a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mr Leonard added: "If any party representative thinks an internal faction fight is more important than this agenda, then they will have to answer to party members and the voters whom we serve".

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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said he "does not recognise" the claim that Jeremy Corbyn's team wanted a "faction fight" in the Labour Party.

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“I don’t want the Labour party to become a faction fight,” Lansman said in a 2016 interview with the Guardian.

“I don’t want the Labour party to become a faction fight,” Lansman said in a 2016 interview with the Guardian.

To oversimplify a bit, the question of Vladimir Putin’s influence on the 2016 presidential election has become a litmus test for where one stands in the faction fight between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wings of the American left.

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