Considering the factiousness of the age, his candour is admirable.
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The distracting effect of Hearst's inconsistencies is intensified by his factiousness.
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Their factiousness and jealousies were the exact opposite of this fruit of the Spirit.
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By forming his alliance with Baldwin, Lafontaine placed himself above language, religious and regional factiousness.
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If he cannot effect the destruction of that church by factiousness, he furiously persecutes it.
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It was the harvest of eternal life of which their factiousness threatened to defraud them.
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The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon.
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Only the most deplorable ignorance and factiousness could base a pretence of dogmatic difference on such a foundation.
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Certainly there is no reason for making Peter responsible for the factiousness of those who used his name.
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In India the factiousness and feebleness of native princes combined with the rapacity of the French and English East India Companies to create a volatile situation.
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By allowing citizens to split the ticket ie, to cast votes for two separate parties the measure made the factiousness of the political system even worse.
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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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Macdonald's comment proved to be prescient: those of his successors who treated French-speaking Canadians with respect were greeted with generosity, while those who treated them as a faction were treated with factiousness.
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In June 1200 Meilyr was in attendance with King John in Normandy, and on 28 October of that year received a grant of two cantreds in Kerry, and one in Cork. About the same time he was appointed to Ireland as Lord Chief Justice, the King reserving to himself pleas touching the crown, the mint, and the exchange. During his six years' government Meilyr had to contend against the factiousness of the Norman nobles. John de Courci, the conqueror of Ulster, was a constant source of trouble to him.
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The initial lack of a clear majority in the Legislative Assembly for either party led to political instability for the first eighteen months of the term of the Fourth Legislature. The Liberal government of Premier Joly de Lotbinière depended on the support of the two Independent Conservatives. The Liberals agreed to elect one of the two independents, Arthur Turcotte, as Speaker of the Assembly, a highly coveted position. Given the narrow majority and factiousness within the Liberal caucus itself, Joly de Lotbinière's government was uncertain of support from vote to vote in the Assembly, which affected his ability to implement major legislation.
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A group of Lancashire justices of the peace petitioned Morton on the ministers' behalf. :We have observed (soe farre as we are able to judge, in these our ministers, Integrity of life and conversation, orthodoxall soundnes of doctrine in their teaching, diligence and painfulness in their places; sobriety and peaceablenes in their dispositions free from factiousness. In regard whereof, and also the great good and profit which our Congregations where they remaine have abundantly received from their ministery, we are emboldened eftsoones to intreat &c.;Based on Paget's own version in Thomas Paget, Humble Advertisment (sic) p. 5.. Quoted in modernised form by Halley, p. 130.
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