All 12 Uses
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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- There was Dostum, the flamboyant Uzbek commander, leader of the Junbish-i-Milli faction, who had a reputation for shifting allegiances.†
p. 160.1faction = sub-group
- The intense, surly Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezb-e-Islami faction, a Pashtun who had studied engineering and once killed a Maoist student.†
p. 160.1
- Rabbani, Tajik leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami faction, who had taught Islam at Kabul University in the days of the monarchy.†
p. 160.2
- Sayyaf, a Pashtun from Paghman with Arab connections, a stout Muslim and leader of the Ittehad-i-Islami faction.†
p. 160.3
- Abdul Ali Mazari, leader of the Hizb-e-Wahdat faction, known as Baba Mazari among his fellow Hazaras, with strong Shi'a ties to Iran.†
p. 160.3
- An Islamic Jihad Council, formed in Peshawar by several of the Mujahideen factions, would oversee things for two months, led by Sibghatullah Mojadidi.†
p. 164.8 *factions = sub-groups
- The other factions cried nepotism.†
p. 171.9
- In June of that yeah, 1992, there was heavy fighting in West Kabul between the Pashtun forces of the warlord Sayyaf and the Hazaras of the Wahdat faction.†
p. 176.7faction = sub-group
- The neighborhood had been all but drained of familiar faces, and now, only four months after fighting had broken out between the Mujahideen factions, Laila hardly recognized anybody on the streets anymore.†
p. 181.6factions = sub-groups
- She was stunned that he'd used that word in the face of all that the Mujahideen factions had done-the murders, the lootings, the rapes, the tortures, the executions, the bombings, the tens of thousands of rockets they had fired at each other, heedless of all the innocent people who would die in the cross fire.†
p. 266.4
- For two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they'd settled.†
p. 274.8
- Even after war broke out between his faction and the others, Mammy had refused to blame him.†
p. 383.2faction = sub-group
Definitions:
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(1)
(faction) a sub-group with some interests not shared by the entire group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)