In years past, the Booker acquired a reputation for fierce infighting and very public feuds over nominees and winners.

If he resigns, it leaves the party open to fierce infighting about its leadership and direction.

Congress has alternated between periods of constructive cooperation and compromise between parties known as bipartisanship and periods of deep political polarization and fierce infighting known as partisanship.

A few shells fell on the beach, some scattered machine-gun and rifle fire rattled along it, but there was none of the fierce infighting that the tense, keyed-up men of the 4th had expected.

Thus, Layton's adversaries can only indulge in fierce, spiteful infighting, name-calling ("upstart punk," for one) and ultimately, retaliation.

When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Rome in September 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected after fierce and protracted infighting.

Like Dr. Hammerfield, he was unused to this fierce "infighting," as Ernest called it.

Despite all the aid, the economy, hampered by security restrictions put on Palestinian travel and exports and fierce Palestinian infighting between Hamas and Fatah, continued to show signs of collapse.

But with the Palestinian unity government of Hamas and Fatah in tatters after fierce factional infighting, there is no obvious Palestinian address for Israel to apply pressure.

Against a background of fierce infighting between prowar and antiwar factions in Japan, and the gathering strength of hard-liners in the United States, Saburo works to avert catastrophe.