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  • 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)
  • ....concern that secret factions within the Masons exerted considerable control over political and financial systems.†   (source)
  • Our clan, the Plain Janes, has splintered and the pieces are being absorbed by rival 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)
  • The Communists worked for the benefit of the poor, and united a nation shattered for decades into warring 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)
  • There are factions who want you to serve their interests and no one else's.†   (source)
  • "We should split into factions for safety," General Doppel urged.†   (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)
  • The result was three different factions among the scrivs, each using a different cataloging system, each firmly believing theirs was the best.†   (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)
  • There is, however, a small dissenting faction.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Beatrice couldn't make out what faction they belonged to, or if they were simply common thugs.†   (source)
  • It's a patchwork quilt of alliances, factions, and intrigues.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Indeed, a sizable faction refused to accept the fact that two unknown men, two thieving strangers, were solely responsible.†   (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)
  • Our village split into factions.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There are some truly powerful demons among the four kingdoms with their own agendas and factions and rivalries.†   (source)
  • The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged.†   (source)
  • You don't think certain factions in Russia might be a little angry at you for pulling out of their deal?†   (source)
  • Big enough for them to have deadly factions within their ranks.†   (source)
  • Yet Adams remained pointedly courteous to both men, as to others of the anti-independence faction.†   (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)
  • Few years later, they were disbanded, though there are rumors on and off about a faction of SafeNet going underground.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Fighters from both factions eye their leader warily.†   (source)
  • Also, inevitably, there was a sizable faction of hard-core criminals.†   (source)
  • First, factional paralysis made Italy weak on the international stage, and, second, it exaggerated inconsistency and volatility in internal matters.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The most common source of factions is the unequal distribution of property.†   (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)
  • Is your allegiance with your current faction, Tobias?†   (source)
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  • Aren't you supposed to be running a faction and planning a war?†   (source)
  • You have done more for this faction than any other person.†   (source)
  • They will send all the data from the Erudite computers to the other faction computers.†   (source)
  • You are also a faction transfer, are you not?†   (source)
  • We are the only faction that could divide like this.†   (source)
  • You mean you can just take a stroll through every faction's data whenever you want?†   (source)
  • "Well, all the faction transfers have a secret club," I say, leaning back in my chair.†   (source)
  • Hopefully we won't have to worry about faction distinctions anymore by the time this is over.†   (source)
  • I have a plan to save some of your faction's data, but I need your help.†   (source)
  • Tori yells, and everyone repeats her, all voices joining together, regardless of faction.†   (source)
  • And that he will do anything to protect his faction, even if it means sacrificing the Divergent.†   (source)
  • I think of Candor's rhyming song, which calls us the cruelest faction.†   (source)
  • It is my fault, of course, that that was never a possibility, because I chose another faction.†   (source)
  • I know she's only asking because faction rules dictate that she does.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry; I forgot that faction members rarely discuss their old factions.†   (source)
  • So you are a faction transfer, are you not?†   (source)
  • "Thanks for the offer, but I think your faction needs you more," I say, turning off the faucet.†   (source)
  • Still, while we may carry our names from family to faction, we rarely mention them.†   (source)
  • You think you're the only one who doesn't just blindly do what your faction tells you to?†   (source)
  • I recognize it from my Faction History textbook, the unit on Erudite and medicine.†   (source)
  • I pause for a moment, remembering how he held his faction's influence over our heads at the meeting.†   (source)
  • And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction.†   (source)
  • What will he think of my friends, my faction?†   (source)
  • Someone else yells, "You are not the leader of our faction!"†   (source)
  • I'm loyal to my faction for that reason—because there's nowhere else I could possibly be.†   (source)
  • And now I am about to finish their work, the work my old faction died for.†   (source)
  • I am the only thing that kept him in the faction he wanted to leave.†   (source)
  • By most faction standards, he is a young leader—only thirty-nine years old.†   (source)
  • When this is over, I won't have a faction.†   (source)
  • He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did.†   (source)
  • It is important that we understand the extent of your loyalty to your chosen faction.†   (source)
  • We could use your help here, and I know you are like-minded about the faction system—†   (source)
  • So unless you want me to shoot you, take a seat with your fellow ex-faction members.†   (source)
  • The best way to ensure that half our faction doesn't die is to sacrifice one life.†   (source)
  • I mean that you are the only disposable faction.†   (source)
  • ...by venturing into another faction's headquarters.†   (source)
  • If it were me, I wouldn't want to get in trouble with your faction.†   (source)
  • The walls are made of glass—I guess I know which faction designed my school.†   (source)
  • Not even after your faction's leaders decided to join in a plot to overthrow the government?†   (source)
  • The color has also come to signify their faction.†   (source)
  • How could I possibly know what a corrupt faction looks like?†   (source)
  • The faction members are milling around everywhere.†   (source)
  • Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way.†   (source)
  • On Choosing Day, she told me to leave my faction and find a safer one.†   (source)
  • So now the entire faction is brain-dead, obedient, and trained to kill.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter what faction I really belong in.†   (source)
  • The thought of my former faction sends a tremor through my hands.†   (source)
  • Aren't you going to reprimand me for abandoning my faction and seeking out my brother?†   (source)
  • Divergent or not, this faction is where I belong.†   (source)
  • Have you never heard the phrase 'faction before blood'?†   (source)
  • He sees my faction as the cruelest of the five, and nothing more.†   (source)
  • They're responsible for the deaths of a large majority of our old faction.†   (source)
  • Between them, they have managed to rally most of the loyal faction members to their cause.†   (source)
  • But she was at the mercy of her faction and their fear.†   (source)
  • But David's desperation to save his life's work doesn't excuse killing off a faction, my faction.†   (source)
  • There are people from every faction in it, even Amity and Erudite.†   (source)
  • I suppose I have grown too large for my faction, as a consequence.†   (source)
  • "We risked our lives by defecting from our faction," says Cara, "and we will risk them again to save our faction from itself."†   (source)
  • Every faction is supposed to have holding rooms for those who make trouble, but I've never been in one before.†   (source)
  • He never told me that they could be funny, or that they could critique their own faction from the inside.†   (source)
  • "I know that Jeanine decided to murder half a faction to steal it, so it must be incredibly important," I say.†   (source)
  • We really are the cruelest faction.†   (source)
  • In normal circumstances, someone would probably reprimand her for discussing her old faction, but these are not normal circumstances.†   (source)
  • Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?†   (source)
  • It means I am not worthy of my faction.†   (source)
  • Or reminding him that it won't be so easy to persuade Dauntless and Candor to join the factionless in their crusade against the faction system.†   (source)
  • I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype.†   (source)
  • "A flexible personality," she says, "would probably have aptitude for more than one faction, don't you agree, Ms.†   (source)
  • I turn left at the next intersection and start down the cracked sidewalk toward the building where Abnegation had its monthly faction-wide meetings.†   (source)
  • If there's a faction left after all this is over," Lynn says, piling her mashed potatoes onto a roll.†   (source)
  • When I finish, I realize I haven't told her why that has anything to do with her or her faction, but I don't know how to say it.†   (source)
  • "The faction system that has long supported itself on the backs of discarded human beings will be disbanded at once," says Evelyn.†   (source)
  • "Our relationship with Erudite notwithstanding, we know better than any faction how essential their role in this society is," she says.†   (source)
  • If we sent the data you wished to rescue to every other faction, destroying it all would be impossible.†   (source)
  • It's just ....Invading a faction's headquarters and killing everyone, isn't that what the Erudite just did to Abnegation?†   (source)
  • The last time I broke into a faction's 458 headquarters, I did it with a gun in my hand, and I left bodies behind me.†   (source)
  • Sometimes personality has nothing to do with a person's choice of faction," I say, thinking of my mother.†   (source)
  • But I am teetering on the edge of grief's mouth, and if I returned to my parents' old faction, it would swallow me.†   (source)
  • And I know you don't want to stay here doing nothing while that happens, even if some of your faction does.†   (source)
  • Without each faction, society doesn't function, because each faction trains its members for particular jobs.†   (source)
  • My brother chose faction over blood.†   (source)
  • "I know you have been under a lot of stress, Tris," he says quietly, "and that you have done a great service to your faction and to Abnegation.†   (source)
  • "Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her.†   (source)
  • She said the most difficult part of Candor initiation was being given truth serum and answering personal questions in front of everyone in the faction.†   (source)
  • I don't want to admit that I was eavesdropping, but I want to tell him I don't trust Evelyn, or the factionless, or anyone who speaks so casually about demolishing an entire faction.†   (source)
  • If the laboratory recognizes people, maybe it also knows data about everyone, and can present a corresponding simulated environment depending on your faction.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world.†   (source)
  • I think of what Tobias told me when we spent the night with the factionless, about the older Dauntless leaving the faction because they were no longer physically capable of staying in it.†   (source)
  • Some of them are decent people who do not understand what their faction has done, but if their entire building collapsed in on them before my eyes, I might not find it in myself to care.†   (source)
  • Faction of origin: Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Well, half of half of our faction.†   (source)
  • My faction has come to save us.†   (source)
  • I regret the duplicity, but we knew that you have been conditioned to cling to the faction system like it is your own mother, and that we would have to help ease you into this new era.†   (source)
  • He reminded me that we Candor are in a weak position, dependent on Erudite for our survival, and told me that if I intend to keep my faction free, I will have to meet a few demands.†   (source)
  • All faction clothing is represented in the group before me: black Candor pants paired with black Dauntless shirts, yellow dresses with blue sweatshirts over them.†   (source)
  • What will my faction think of him?†   (source)
  • Are together, like a faction.†   (source)
  • I am only familiar with the religion of my parents' faction, which part of me still holds to and the other rejects as foolishness—the prayers before dinner, the weekly meetings, the acts of service, the poems about a selfless God.†   (source)
  • My faction, calling to me.†   (source)
  • Everyone else drops to the ground, but I stay on my feet, part of me marveling at the perfect synchronicity of it, and the other part disgusted at how Jeanine Matthews has turned yet another faction from human beings into parts of a machine.†   (source)
  • Just in front of them stands a small group of younger Dauntless, including Uriah; Marlene; Lynn's sister, Shauna; and Lauren, who taught the Dauntless-born initiates as Four taught the faction transfers during initiation.†   (source)
  • Selected faction: Dauntless.†   (source)
  • "What I am talking about," says Evelyn, looking at Tori for the first time, "is that your faction, which up until a few weeks ago was clamoring along with the Erudite for the restriction of food and goods to the factionless, a clamor that resulted in the destruction of the Abnegation, will no longer exist."†   (source)
  • My faction.†   (source)
  • But at least his evil didn't involve the widespread manipulation of an entire faction and the systematic murder of every political leader we have.†   (source)
  • He takes my hands, lacing his fingers with mine, and says, "The faction that controls the government.†   (source)
  • Or, because you seem to be so attached to your previous faction ...perhaps I will be forced to reconsider your friends' ranks.†   (source)
  • The symbols of each faction are drawn there—Dauntless at the top of his spine, Abnegation just below it, and the other three, smaller, beneath them.†   (source)
  • I do not know what life will be like, separated from a faction—it feels disengaged, like a leaf divided from the tree that gives it sustenance.†   (source)
  • And he is right—the thought that my reckless behavior could force someone else out of a faction makes my chest ache from fear.†   (source)
  • A faction of intellectuals is no army.†   (source)
  • It amazes me how easy it is to tune out everything else—thoughts of war on Abnegation, Tobias, Caleb, my parents, my friends, my new faction fade away.†   (source)
  • "As to the reason for your presence here ...a quality of my faction is curiosity," she says, "and while perusing your records, I saw that there was another error with another one of your simulations.†   (source)
  • I am sure that once the remains of your old faction are absorbed into the Dauntless army, Candor will cooperate and we will finally be able to get on with things.†   (source)
  • If I survive, I will undoubtedly go on to do far more difficult things than even that, like live without a faction, something I never imagined possible.†   (source)
  • Faction before blood,' right?†   (source)
  • "Well," I say, "first I got reamed out in front of everyone, and then I had to chat with the woman who's trying to destroy my old faction, and then Eric almost tossed my friends out of Dauntless, so yeah, it's shaping up to be a pretty great day, Four."†   (source)
  • Listening to my father insult Erudite all my life has made me wary of them, and my experiences in the Dauntless compound make me wary of authority and human beings in general, so I'm not shocked to hear that a faction could be planning a war.†   (source)
  • Am I in the wrong faction?†   (source)
  • Erudite faction norms dictate that a faction member must wear at least one blue article of clothing at a time, because blue causes the body to release calming chemicals, and "a calm mind is a clear mind."†   (source)
  • "No faction customs anymore," she says.†   (source)
  • Faction loyalists calling themselves the Allegiant have rebelled against factionless control, attacking weapons safe houses.†   (source)
  • she would have supported action against Erudite instead of the passivity the rest of her faction advocated.†   (source)
  • I was young, but not too young to realize that it was a forbidden object in the Abnegation faction, a useless and therefore a self-indulgent one.†   (source)
  • But she chose the faction where she could help the helpless, and dedicated most of her life to making sure the factionless were provided for.†   (source)
  • I walk into the lobby, where someone reassembled the portrait of Jeanine Matthews, but they drew an X over each of her eyes in red paint and wrote "Faction scum" across the bottom.†   (source)
  • I think there's a way to target memories, depending on where the knowledge is stored in the brain, otherwise the first faction members wouldn't have known how to speak or tie their shoes or anything.†   (source)
  • Johanna successfully negotiated with the government—David's superiors—to allow the former faction members to stay in the city, provided they are self-sufficient, submit to the government's authority, and allow outsiders to come in and join them, making Chicago just another metropolitan area, like Milwaukee.†   (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)
  • Two factions were fighting to lead the revolution in the factory.†   (source)
  • As the ETO movement continued to develop, a third faction appeared: the Survivors.†   (source)
  • You can see that most people attending this meeting are comrades from the Redemptionist faction.†   (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)
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