1. They have become totems to factious causes rather than to shared ideals. 2. Known congenially as the Mayor of Punk movement, and ideologically factious skinheads. 3. The delay is due in large part to the factious nature of Iraqi society. 4. The new ruler temporarily united the factious aristocracy, and Ivaylo gradually lost support. 5. Goad's friends protested against his dismissal as the work of a factious party. 6. But the government in Tirana barely controls this impoverished, factious country of four million people. 7. But he warned : " Call them a faction, and they become factious ." 8. That indicated a possible rift between Kurds and Arabs in the factious Iraqi movement opposed to Saddam. 9. Lane entered the public forum by embroiling himself in one of the most factious debates of our time, 10. It was unclear whether Holbrooke's latest effort had narrowed the differences within the factious Albanian community.