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FACTION [23 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Parliamentary Language
DEF

[The enumeration] of candidates for election nominated or put forward by a party or faction.

PHR

the Republican ticket

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
DEF

[Enumeración] de candidatos [...] que un partido político presenta en unas elecciones.

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Record 2 2022-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Guerilla Warfare
DEF

A conflict in which a government confronts a faction aiming to overthrow it or force a change to its policy by illegal means including civil disorder, terrorism and armed insurrection.

OBS

The government’s response will range from civil police enforcement of the law to the application of military force. The conflict may be prosecuted in a restricted geographic area, throughout the extent of a State or even transnationally.

OBS

low-intensity conflict; LIC: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guérilla
DEF

Conflit dans lequel un gouvernement fait face à une faction qui vise à le renverser ou à le forcer à changer sa politique en recourant à des moyens illégaux, y compris le désordre civil, le terrorisme et l'insurrection armée.

OBS

L'intervention du gouvernement peut aller de l'application de la loi par les corps de police civile au recours à la force militaire. Le conflit peut être localisé dans une zone géographique restreinte, être généralisé dans l'ensemble de l'État ou même s'étendre outre-frontière.

OBS

conflit de faible intensité : désignation et définition uniformisées par le Comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

OBS

conflit de faible intensité; LIC : désignations uniformisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • International Relations
OBS

warring faction; WF : The plural form of this designation(warring factions) and the abbreviation are standardized by NATO.

Key term(s)
  • warring factions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Relations internationales
OBS

faction belligérante; WF : La désignation au pluriel (factions belligérantes) et l'abréviation sont normalisées par l'OTAN.

Key term(s)
  • factions belligérantes

Spanish

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Record 4 2020-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
OBS

The Democratic Party of Serbia(DSS) was founded in 1992 by a breakaway nationalist faction of the Democratic Party(DS), which advocated involvement in the Democratic Movement of Serbia(DEPOS).

OBS

Democratic Party of Serbia; DSS: designations to be used by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
OBS

[Fondé en 1992,] le Parti démocratique de Serbie [...] est un parti politique serbe, membre de l’Union démocratique internationale et associé du Parti populaire européen.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Military Administration
OBS

faction liaison officer; FLO : designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Administration militaire
OBS

officier de liaison faction; FLO : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 6 2014-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • National and International Security
CONT

A political faction consists of a group of individuals pursuing a specific purpose.

OBS

political faction : terminology extracted from the Anti-terrorism Act of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
CONT

Cette faction politique compte environ 70 millions de membres, puisque la plupart des étudiants chinois sont tenus d’y adhérer.

OBS

faction politique : terminologie relevée de la Loi antiterroriste du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
DEF

In identification, the designation given to a track, object or entity belonging to a declared, presumed or recognized friendly nation, faction or group.

OBS

friend: term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
DEF

En identification, désignation donnée à une piste, à un objet ou à une entité appartenant à un pays, à une faction ou à un groupe déclaré ou présumé ami, ou reconnu comme tel.

OBS

ami : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 8 2010-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations and Associations (Admin.)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
DEF

A group of people in a political party, church, club, etc. acting together, usually in opposition to another such group or the main body.

OBS

A faction often seeks to promote only its own interests at the expense of the group as a whole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et associations (Admin.)
  • Sociologie des idéologies
DEF

Groupe de gens unis pour renverser le pouvoir établi, ou qui se livrent à une activité fractionnelle à l'intérieur d'un groupe.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y asociaciones (Admón.)
  • Sociología de la ideología
DEF

Unión de algunos que se confederan para un fin, separándose del común.

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Record 9 2010-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • Security
DEF

The government of a foreign state, an entity exercising or purporting to exercise the functions of a government in relation to a territory outside Canada regardless of whether Canada recognizes the territory as a state or the authority of that entity over the territory, or a political faction or party operating within a foreign state whose stated purpose is to assume the role of government of a foreign state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Sécurité
DEF

Gouvernement d'un État étranger; entité faisant ou prétendant faire fonction de gouvernement pour un territoire étranger, que le Canada reconnaisse ou non le territoire comme État ou l'autorité de l'entité sur celui-ci; faction ou parti politique exerçant son activité à l'étranger et dont le but avoué est d'assumer le gouvernement d'un État étranger.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Relaciones internacionales
  • Seguridad
CONT

Hay aún regiones considerables del mundo que no son autónomas y están administradas por potencias extranjeras. Debido a su situación estratégica, algunos de esos territorios son de importancia especial para diversas potencias, y en algunos casos para todo el mundo [...]

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Record 10 2009-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
CONT

The vast majority of these girls and young women did not enter fighting forces willingly but were abducted or joined as a matter of survival when no other option for protection was available.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
CONT

Les femmes et les filles ont rapporté des atrocités commises par des membres de toutes les forces combattantes mêlées au conflit.

Spanish

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Record 11 2007-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
  • Military Organization
OBS

The Japanese Red Army(JRA) is a terrorist group founded by Fusako Shigenobu in February 1971 after breaking away from the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. The JRA's state goals are to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to start a world revolution. The group is also known as the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade(AIIB), Nippon Sekigun, Nihon Sekigun, Holy War Brigade, and the Anti-War Democratic Front.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
  • Organisation militaire
OBS

L'Armée rouge japonaise, JRA, acronyme international pour Japanese Red Army est un groupe terroriste d'extrême gauche japonais fondé par Fusako Shigenobu en février 1971 après s'être séparé de la Ligue communiste japonaise - Fraction armée rouge. Les objectifs de la JRA était de renverser le Gouvernement japonais et sa monarchie et de commencer une révolution mondiale. La JRA est aussi connue en tant que Brigade internationale anti-impérialiste, Nippon Sekigun, Nihon Sekigun, Brigade de la guerre sainte et Front démocratique anti-guerre.

Spanish

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Record 12 2006-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Criminal Law
DEF

A supporter of a dissident faction who resorts to violence in order to intimidate and coerce people for political ends.

OBS

Term and definition officialized by the Army Doctrine and Tactics Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal international
DEF

Membre d'une faction dissidente qui recourt à la violence pour des raisons politiques en vue d'intimider et de contraindre la population.

OBS

Terme et définition uniformisés par le Sous-comité de terminologie française du Conseil de doctrine et de tactique de l'Armée de terre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho penal internacional
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Record 13 2005-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
  • National and International Security
CONT

It's all about guns, but also about a basic democratic principle in that we just cannot have a situation where the representatives of an armed terrorist faction are sitting in a cabinet in a democratic assembly next to people who don’t have an armed terrorist faction supporting their every move.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des idéologies
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 14 2005-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
  • National Policies
CONT

... an unauthorized faction within a state might take itself to use a sub-national group to do its dirty work.

Key term(s)
  • subnational group

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
  • Politiques nationales

Spanish

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Record 15 2005-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Security
  • Guerilla Warfare
OBS

The Red Army Faction(in German : Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, which was one of the core groups within the RAF, was postwar Western Germany's most active left-wing terrorist organization. The RAF referred to its members as "urban guerrillas". It operated from the 1970s to 1998, causing great unrest(especially in the autumn of 1977, which led to a national crisis) and killing dozens of high-profile Germans in its more than 20 years of existence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Sécurité
  • Guérilla
Key term(s)
  • Faction de l'Armée rouge

Spanish

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Record 16 2005-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Security
OBS

The Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction(Factions Armees Revolutionnaires Libanaises-FARL) grew out of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations Group(PFLP-SOG), after the death of its leader, Wadi Haddad, in 1979. Although the FARL, PFLP and PFLP-SOG were all Marxist-Leninist organizations, some of the aims of the groups differed. While the PFLP and its factions advocated revolutionary political change throughout the Arab world, the FARL focused on the creation of a Marxist-Leninist state in Lebanon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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Record 17 2003-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Political Institutions
OBS

Originally formed in 1978 as Devrimci Sol, or Dev Sol, it was a splinter faction of the Turkish People's Liberation Party/Front. Renamed in 1994 after factional infighting, it still espouses a Marxist ideology and is virulently anti-United States and anti-NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Institutions politiques
DEF

Une des très nombreuses organisations de l'extrême gauche turque dont l'ennemi prioritaire est l'appareil de sécurité de l'État : policiers, militaires, etc.

Spanish

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Record 18 2000-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • International Relations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 19 1997-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
DEF

The ratio between a quantity of the radiation emitted by the source and this quantity of the radiation as produced by the radioactive nuclei present in the source.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
DEF

[...] rapport entre une quantité de rayonnement émis par la source et la quantité de rayonnement produite par le noyau radioactif présent dans la source.

Spanish

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Record 20 1997-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Political Science (General)
OBS

Faction consisting mainly of Pol Pot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales no canadienses
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
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Record 21 1994-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
CONT

Since the controversy over logging in Clayoquot Sound heated up in April, the stars have been flocking to [Victoria]. In July, Australian rockers "Midnight Oil" and environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr. put in appearances for the anti-logging side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général

Spanish

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Record 22 1990-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
  • Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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Record 23 1984-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research
OBS

(of league faction)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche scientifique
OBS

liquéfaction des gaz. (Science et découverte, novembre 1971, p. 2)

Spanish

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