Animosity between the factions has grown, most recently over how far VA should go in offering veterans health care from private doctors, with the administration favoring legislation that would most aggressively expand such options.
Anthony Miller, chairman of the Republican Party in the Ahwatukee neighborhood, recently resigned his post because, he said, the behind-the-scenes battling between different factions had grown entirely too bitter and personal.
Beatrice Prior is faced with the impossible task of choosing whether to betray her family and leave Abnegation, the faction she has grown up in, or take the giant leap to a whole new way of life somewhere else.
Such an effort would thrust Washington's traditionally cautious and pragmatic business lobby into open warfare with the Tea Party faction, which has grown in influence since the 2010 election and won a series of skirmishes with the Republican establishment in the last two years.
Such an effort would thrust Washington's traditionally cautious and pragmatic business lobby into open warfare with the Tea Party faction, which has grown in influence since the 2010 election and won a series of skirmishes with the Republican establishment in the last two years.
The sense of betrayal among nominally pro-Western factions in the opposition has grown intensely in recent days.
The more hawkish faction in the State and Defense Departments has grown increasingly frustrated, privately worrying that Mr. Obama has come across as weak and unintentionally sent the message that he has written off Crimea after Russia's annexation.
A fierce sense of rivalry has grown between the factions, all of whom continue to use the architecture of Lisses as an outdoor gym, but despite the divisions, the popularity of their sport appears to be growing.
It has grown influential in the Afghan government, even as its militant faction has tried to continue its fight.
Mr. Assad's position is stronger, and the rebellion has grown weaker, more fragmented and more dominated by Islamic radical factions.
