They have become, in effect, a non-faction faction, with Mr Koizumi as their unspoken head.Some modernisers within the LDP, including among Koizumi's children, see little hope of more stable politics and more sensible policymaking in Japan without a split in the LDP.
Every neighborhood has its factions, every faction has a lawyer, every planning board has a headache.
The faction that Sanders represented was the electrified faction, the energized faction.
Faction members follow faction leaders out of personal loyalty, and in return for patronage.
Treatment of abductees can vary from faction to faction within Boko Haram, a report by International Alert found.
"Even Tehrik-i-Taliban is divided into many factions, or every faction has at some level collaboration and coordination," Mr. Rana said.
The first time we spoke, I asked him about Madison's Federalist No. 10, which is about "curing the mischiefs of faction" (by "faction," Madison meant, roughly speaking, what we'd call "interest groups").
Views vary as to which militant faction (or factions) really did it, but they may have been timed to embarrass Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, who was drumming up support on a foreign tour due to end this week in Washington.
They must remain one faction among many other factions of the revolution and one component of Syrian society which has many other components".
Sŏng Hyŏn's Yongjae ch'onghwa ("Miscellany of Yongjae") established the tradition of courtier literature, in which various factions at court (the moralist faction, the Neo-Confucian faction) inveighed against each other.
Yet international law stipulates that, in a civil war such as the one raging in Syria, the consent of the faction or factions controlling territory is necessary for the delivery of aid.
