Then in the 16th century CE the Christian Church split into many factions during the Reformation, a period of intense theological and military conflict, between Catholics and Protestants and among different groups of Protestants, and few people were safe from persecution.
On Thursday, at the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus, hundreds of residents who had fled fighting between factions returned during a lull, after what Palestinian activists said was a negotiated truce.
Evaluating the truthfulness of these reports is tricky because various factions — especially during a transition like the one between Mr. Hu and Mr. Xi — often leak information to discredit opponents.
Heaton-Harris added that it was not uncommon or against party rules for political parties to have "open communication channels on a frequent basis" with rival factions during elections.
In the general election of 1906, the Liberals, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, a cautious Scot who had stayed clear of the extreme factions during the South African War, won 377 seats, giving them an enormous majority of 84 over all other parties combined.
Syria has played a major role in Lebanese politics, siding with different factions during the civil war.
She has a three-bedroom, three-bathroom uptown apartment, and so had a stream of guests (or, as she put it, "competing factions") during the hurricane.
The speech, which was condemned by a Palestinian official, came hours after a visiting Egyptian delegation failed to win a cease-fire pledge from Hamas and other militant Palestinian factions during two days of talks.
In mine, I saw no "slugfests" between student factions during the week of the occupation.
We learn how to play with these people, these factions, during these long 23 years of war.
