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These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious fellows.
这些聚会不应成为帮派斗殴和凶残的人的庇护所。
Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the new world.
许多清教徒开拓者在新大陆仍保持他们好争论的脾气。
By contrast the American progressive tradition has been enormously factious, fragmented, and often self defeating;
尽管美国进步的传统已经变得相当分化、失去连贯性，并且经常不攻自破；

You couldn't get rid of faction by saying to men, it's not good to be factious, you should think of the whole community at all times.
你无法通过告诉人们,派系之坏而去彻底摆脱它,而是应将社会各界因素考虑完全
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But with a cabinet as factious as Lebanon's, not even this cosy carve-up could keep a lid on controversial programmes.
ECONOMIST: Lebanon