Interested cliques could control the business of the town-meeting in ordinary times, and boisterousness marred its democractic excellence in exciting times. [Please select]
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"Oh, we don't want any cliques," said Merle quickly. [Please select]
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The chief influence of the cliques lay, however, in the selection of officials. [Please select]
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Surrounded by these cliques, the emperors became in most cases powerless figureheads. [Please select]
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Such fights, however, reflected more the power struggle between cliques than between religious groups. [Please select]
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2 _Struggles between cliques under the Eastern Chin dynasty_ (A.) [Please select]
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The struggles and intrigues of cliques against each other continued as before. [Please select]
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Princes were more often appointed to governorships, and the influence of the cliques was thus weakened. [Please select]
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In the year 500 Confucius became chief counsellor to the new marquess, and by his energetic action drove into exile in Tsin a very formidable agitator belonging to one of the powerful family cliques. [Please select]
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There is less of that spirit which is born of clubs and cliques and clans and schools--with their fine-spun theorizing, and their impudent assumption that they are divinely commissioned to sit in judgment. [Please select]
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