The former Authority member asked Joey Mercury to get the limousine ready but Dolph Ziggler walked out to the stage to talk about how he pinned Rollins to put his faction out of power.
Besides the vying of local factions for power within a city, antagonisms between different cities were aggravated as they took sides on the papal-imperial issue.
McMahon faces representatives of the various factions of out-of-power US Republicans, including an ousted old politician, a Bush crony, a Ron Paul devotee and a cultural conservative.
The book that most impressed me is Dave Eggers's What is the What (Penguin), written with the Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng, whose astonishing story Eggers transmutes into a "faction" of immense power, emotion and even, in the midst of horror, beauty.
Led by James Otis, Jr. and Oxenbridge Thacher, the anti-Parliament faction seized on every minor dispute to rail against Hutchinson and his faction's monopolisation of power.
The Pol Pot guerilla faction - out of power and holding little territory inside the country - continued to enjoy diplomatic recognition and, with US support, held onto the Cambodia seat in the UN General Assembly for another 10 years.
Once elected, Mr. Koizumi stripped the factions of another repository of power.
It is probably more fair to think of it as a coup: in October of 1917, the Bolsheviks were but one of many socialist factions, and their seizure of power was more a testament to their audacity and the fervency of their own beliefs than to a deep well of popular support.
She has seen more than three decades of factions vying for power, of popular hope for peace, of alternating promises to curtail or to create women's rights.
