Our political system is designed to frustrate the efforts of any one faction to take over, and we are all members of a faction with dreams of taking over.
Hamas ended more than 40 years of unchallenged leadership by Fatah, the more secular faction, with a victory in a parliamentary election in 2006.
With Mullah Muhammad Omar acting only as the Taliban's spiritual head, the opportunity has emerged for an enterprising faction with a driven commander — as was the case with Mr. Duan — to unify or dominate the divided Afghan insurgency.
Shortly after the Iranians were captured, a video was released by a militant faction, with a rebel leader saying, "They are Iranian thugs who were in Damascus for a field reconnaissance mission".
And even in liberal-democratic countries, state authorities do act as "arbiters of truth" in all sorts of ways, for example in their education policies.But the USCIRF paper is certainly right to stress that blasphemy laws can become a deadly weapon in the hands of an individual or faction with a personal or political grudge.
Whether he replaces them with "quiet revolutionaries", as Mr Nakagawa puts it (including presumably himself), or instead rewards each party faction with a Buggins' turn will give a strong sense of Mr Fukuda's resolve.For now, colleagues many critical just weeks ago give him the benefit of the doubt, and say his mood is ebullient.
Michael Arrington led the Droid's faction, with a QVC-like enthusiasm for the power of Any Phone That Runs Google Voice.
Genuine dissent was manipulated by forming three-person groups whose members either all favored the same alternative individually (homogeneous groups) or consisted of a minority and a majority faction with regard to their favored alternative (heterogeneous groups).
After the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Clinton signed what some former U.S. officials called a "covert action finding" authorizing CIA operations against al Qaeda, then regarded as a marginal Islamic militant faction with an eccentric, Saudi-born leader.
The Communists, with 91 seats, maintained a plurality and formed a powerful faction with the Socialists and Agrarians.
