All 16 Uses
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The Three-Body Problem
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- Many read the editorial as tacitly encouraging Red Guards to attack military armories and seize weapons from the PLA, further inflaming the local civil wars waged by Red Guard factions.†
p. 10.9factions = sub-groups
- Most of the gate's metal bars, capped with sharp tips, had been pulled down at the beginning of the factional civil wars to be used as spears, but two still remained.†
p. 11.1
- As the revolutionaries had splintered into numerous factions, opposing forces everywhere engaged in complex maneuvers and contests.†
p. 11.8factions = sub-groups
- And each faction divided into new rebel groups from time to time, each based on different backgrounds and agendas, leading to even more ruthless fighting.†
p. 11.9faction = sub-group
- These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.†
p. 12.1 *
- She had only learned recently that Wenxue had died two years ago in one of the wars between Red Guard factions.†
p. 39.7factions = sub-groups
- You can see that most people attending this meeting are comrades from the Redemptionist faction.†
p. 255.1faction = sub-group
- During the Hundred-Day War at Tsinghua, two of us were with the Jinggang Mountain Corps, and the other two were with the April Fourteenth Faction.†
p. 301.3
- I held a grenade and attacked a homemade tank from the Jinggang Mountain faction.†
p. 301.4
- Fought between two Red Guard factions, it lasted from April 23 to July 27 in 1968.†
p. 301.9factions = sub-groups
- At the end, an adult and a child stand in front of the grave of a Red Guard who had died during the faction civil wars.†
p. 302.5faction = sub-group
- Within the organization were complicated factions and divisions of opinion.†
p. 318.6factions = sub-groups
- Mainly, they fell into two factions.†
p. 318.6
- The two factions were of approximately equal strength within the organization, and the armed forces of both had developed to the point of starting a civil war.†
p. 321.1
- As the ETO movement continued to develop, a third faction appeared: the Survivors.†
p. 321.3faction = sub-group
- Compared to the other two factions, the Survivors tended to come from the lower social classes, and most were from the East, and especially from China.†
p. 321.5factions = sub-groups
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)