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".
Amy Allison is a longtime mainstay of New York City's small but determined country-rock faction, with a high voice that sounds more suited to a mountain cabin than to urban tenements.
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.
Join a faction with a good amount of respect, which shows how active the members are, with high chains which shows that they're organised for war and provide weapons and good pay.
Only recently was a deal struck with the majority of Madhesi factions, with an expansion of seats intended to boost their representation in the new assembly.
The fascination of the Sea Trilogy is its combination of satisfying symbolism the ship as a womb, or world, or a country riddled by factions with an equally satisfactory actuality.
