But it is divided along factional lines and has few tools to impose its writ.

但是它沿着派系线来划分并且用一些工具来加强自己的法令。

More than 1,000 people have been killed in two weeks of ethnic and factional violence in South Sudan.

南苏丹发生了两周的种族和宗派冲突，导致一千多人丧生。

More than two decades of north-south conflict followed by over two years of factional fighting have further weakened an already fragile nation.

20多年北方同南方的冲突，紧随其后的是2年多的派系之争让这个本就脆弱不堪的国家雪上加霜。

You know, we've been stuck in this awful Conservative soap opera of factional fights and psychodrama, as it's always called.

你知道，我们一直被困在这部可怕的保守派派系斗争肥皂剧和心理剧中，就像它总是被称为的那样。

But instead it became yet another damage limitation exercise for the prime minister as her party descended into yet another round of factional warfare.

但相反，随着她的政党陷入另一轮派系斗争， 这成为总理的又一次损害限制演习。

In the factional violence before the approach  of the Romans however much of the city's food supply had been destroyed by fire, leaving  the defenders vulnerable to starvation.

然而，在罗马人逼近之前的派系暴力中， 该城的大部分粮食供应已被大火摧毁，使守军很容易挨饿。

Most of the gate's metal bars, capped with sharp tips, had been pulled down at the beginning of the factional civil wars to be used as spears, but two still remained.

大门的大部分金属条都带有锋利的尖端，在派系内战开始时被拉下来用作长矛，但还剩下两根。

He also gave generously for the upkeep and development of places of worship of all communities, bringing peace, stability and prosperity into a region that had been subject to factional rivalry, not unlike that seen in the Middle East today.

他还慷慨拨款维修和建设所有团体的圣所，为原本宗派暴力横行的地区带来了和平，稳定和繁荣，而不像今天的中东的景象。