Meanings of factious opposition in English

He, during a prolonged Parliamentary experience, had encountered much factious opposition.

The Republic has grown in strength, and factious opposition has decreased during his administration.

Surely, this is " factious opposition," as their Mr. HOLTON would say.

But now the news of the victory of Cannae reduced even the factious opposition at home to silence.

It is Lord Brock's own doing too, after all that he said about abstaining from factious opposition to the government.

As already said, after some factious opposition the measures of 1850 had been accepted by the people as a finality of the slavery question.

Unwilling to struggle longer against the mean personalities and factious opposition of his own party in Congress, he tendered his resignation to Mr. Madison.

He talked with regret and indignation of the factious opposition to Government at this time, and imputed it in a great measure to the Revolution.

He issued a proclamation to his army denouncing the factious opposition {250} of the Clichiens; and he sent Augereau, his grenadier general, to Barras' assistance.

Factious opposition in the Senate forced the President to placate the Federalists by appointing William Pinkney of Maryland.