The entrenched battle between the Houthis -- a faction dominated by members from Shiite Zaidi sect and loosely allied to Iran — and forces backed by Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies has yielded no victors.
Leading Progress member Tristram Hunt joked that Progress were an "unaccountable faction dominated by a secretive billionaire", which is how many on the Left of the party see the organisation.
A second faction, dominated by Theodore Lyman, consisted of merchants and wealthy coastal interests opposed to Whig interests.
Saeed Barzin, a London-based Iranian analyst, said Rouhani's call for a referendum was a threat to push back the economic and political meddling of an unelected faction dominated by hardliners, in particular the Revolutionary Guards.
One faction dominated by landowners proposed a land bank, while merchants proposed a bank that would issue silver-backed paper.
The Chongqing model represented a rebuke of the policies favored by the reformist faction dominated by Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao.
While he never accepted public office, his faction dominated the city.
The 78-year-old Mr. Abbas presides over a fiercely divided people, with the militant Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip and his more moderate Fatah faction dominating the West Bank.
The Reform Party split at its convention in Long Beach last month, with the faction dominated by hard-right conservatives nominating Mr. Buchanan and the faction made up mainly of those advocating government reform nominating Mr. Hagelin.
In the aftermath of Mr. Bo's fall, there is more talk of the chances for promotion of Wang Yang, the party chief of Guangdong Province who is associated with Hu Jintao's faction, dominated by former Communist Youth League officials.
The Chongqing model provided an 'alternate' comprehensive roadmap for development that diverged from the policies favored by the reformist faction dominated by Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao.
