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Перевод: factious

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фракционный; раскольнический

Тезаурус:

1. I have a roistering challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks.
2. For a restored social elite, one which included many former supporters of Parliament, the remaining dissenters were "A turbulent, seditious, and factious people" and their written style of self-presentation was further confirmation of their unruliness.
3. They are not practical instruments of warfare, though they genuinely reflect the factious bellicose tendencies of their builders.
4. The phrase factory system was already entering the language when, in 1807, Davies Gilbert MP, a distinguished scientist, declared: However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness: it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing counties.
5. Not until the 1760s did Britain begin to live down her reputation (based on the violence of the period 1640-;1714) as an inveterately turbulent and factious country where almost anything could happen.
6. When Lord John Russell declared that "the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation", he was appealing to moral principle; and if, when that appeal was made, it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so.
7. He had transformed a fragmented, factious resistance movement into a monolithic, Gaullist one.
8. But they were also cities of great and growing wealth and beauty, noisy, factious places jealous of their independence.
9. And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government to seek and obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament.
10. Thus the towers represented the wealth and social ambition of the leading citizens, and the turbulent, factious, independent spirit so characteristic of them.
11. In due course, finding that national discontents and factious habits of thinking were spreading rapidly in that city and throughout France, he obtained leave to visit England again, under the pretext of buying horses for his sovereign's stud.
12. His maiden speech, ostensibly a conventional attack on placemen, was directed at the prince regent who, provoked by Bennet's championship of his estranged wife, labelled him "factious".
13. "I would be a Christian," Bunyan wrote, "but as for those factious titles of Anabaptists, Independent, Presbyterian or the like, I conclude that they come neither from Jerusalem nor Antioch, but Hell or Babylon."