Two main factions arose: the "Radicals" and the "Conservatives".
Two of the main factions merged in 2004 to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
He has already won the backing of all the main factions and looks poised to become prime minister.
She included ministers from each of parliament's main factions, proclaiming that "national unity will be the first priority".
An American-backed partnership government uniting Iraq's three main factions — the Shiite majority, Sunnis and Kurds — appears poised to fall.
"It's clear that the main factions assume that civil war is a possibility and they are hedging their bets.
And it does seem likely that individuals in all of Basra's main factions are taking the Iranian rial.
But Boko Haram has always been fragmented, with two main factions manoeuvering for influence over several years.
He would have a better chance than most to unite the party's two main factions: its old-fashioned tax-and-spend populists and pro-euro modernisers.
Tripoli has a standing fault line between two adjacent neighborhoods, one primarily Sunni Muslim and the other Alawite, the same main factions arrayed against each other in Syria.
That the outstanding figures of the two main factions, Hamilton and Jefferson, both belonged to Washington's cabinet attests to the fundamental disagreements within the country.
