"There is a factional struggle going on," said a Westerner.

Through the 1970s, and especially after mid-1975, the party was also shaken by factional struggles.

While factional struggles continued into the 1970s, the Burns regime remained in power.

Major internal factional struggles in the group have developed from time to time.

"I'm afraid that the sickness of the factional struggles and divisions in the party have gone too far."

The party was also seriously weakened by internal factional struggles.

Due to these reforms, the party was able to overcome its factional struggles by the late-1920s.

If the officer corps decided to follow her lead, there wouldn't be any factional struggles.

If he were to die without an heir any time soon, many fear a factional struggle would follow.

Beneath them, factional struggles have taken over the government, complicated by the approach of presidential elections in 2013.