"All we know is that when we played the qualifiers, we made the killings from both factions cease.
But what happens, as in the case of slavery during the 1850s, when these factions cease to pursue interests that can be negotiated and become wedded to principles central to identity?
Trade and communications between Zakary's now Shaper Council loyalist Drypeak and the other three factions have ceased, replaced with spies and subterfuge.
Out of power, the party may fly apart, break into factions and cease to exist in its present form, Mr. Bailey said.
It is excellent that Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat's successor, is breaking out of the vicious circle of the intifada, talking the armed factions into ceasing fire and so setting the scene not only for a tentative, reciprocal ceasefire from Israel but also for a meeting next week with Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
Mr Qurei has refused to meet his Israeli counterpart because, so long as he is unable to persuade the Palestinian factions to cease fire, he has nothing to trade.Even if he could fix a truce, he may be losing the power to police one.
Although administration officials spent much of the summer criticizing the current Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki — in August President Bush publicly acknowledged "a certain level of frustration" with the Iraqi government's failure to unify its warring ethnic factions — the criticism has ceased.
Papal decisions favoured the Conventuals, and the Spirituals ceased to be a faction of importance in the order after 1325.
ʿAflaq ceased to play an important role in Syrian politics after 1966 (when he moved to Lebanon) but continued to guide certain factions of the Baʿth Party in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
