"One was the faction who said, 'Who cares?
"Then there's the faction who can't walk and chew gum.
It sometimes seems to be a play set in a revolving door, as one faction giddily spins through to expel another faction, who are plotting the downfall of a third faction, who have designs on a fourth..
This reliance on religious leaders riles those in the City Hall faction who are losing their power.
An assailant from the Islamic Jihad faction who had accompanied him did not get past the fence and fled.
I feel this pressure particularly keenly, belonging as I do to that metropolitan faction who earn a living laughing at others' misbehaviour and misfortune.
The inner core of this loose faction, who often socialized in Roland's salon, numbered about 60 or, with their supporters, perhaps 150 to 175.
It is thought to be the work of an extremist faction who, like the Salafis, are willing to use force to exact their will.
Ilya V. Ponomaryov, a member of Parliament from the Just Russia faction who was among those who did not stand, said Mr. Putin's appearance came as a surprise.
Professor Duncan Kennedy, for instance, a leader of the faction, who declined to comment on Cruz's accusation, counts himself as influenced by the writings of Karl Marx.
And we fear that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Fatah faction, who were cut out of the swap altogether, will be further weakened.
