faction : Idioms & Phrases


  • noun a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
    Lautaro Youth Movement; Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces.
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pro-choice faction

  • noun those who argue that the decision to have an induced abortion should be made by the mother
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pro-life faction

  • noun those who argue that induced abortion is killing and should be prohibited
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red army faction

  • noun a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
    RAF.
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