Sentence examples for smaller faction from inspiring English sources

Islamic Jihad, a smaller faction backed by Iran, also respects the ceasefire.

But a smaller faction is awaiting the public debut of Splunk, a big-data security company that plans to go public at a $946 million valuation.

The congress also includes a smaller faction made up of hard-liners and Russian nationalists who would prefer a more authoritarian course for the republic.

In Iran, the leader of a smaller faction, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was reported to have issued veiled death threats against the Palestinian delegates, leading to complaints today from a P.L.O.

This is especially important in Lithuania, officials say, because the party here has split in two, with the larger faction independent of Moscow and supporting Lithuanian autonomy, while the smaller faction pledges allegiance to Moscow and opposes independence.

Lithuanian officials say they suspect that the smaller faction has a strong following in the K.G.B., and could use this to undermine the efforts to withdraw from the union peacefully.

The secularists could put together a government with smaller factions, albeit a rather fragile one.

The smaller factions in Gaza are less committed, but are under pressure from Hamas to comply.

The Palestine Liberation Organization has long been dominated by Fatah and includes some smaller factions.

As one of the smaller factions, it has the least to lose politically from disrupting the calm.

Another, smaller right-wing party, the National Religious Party, also gained a seat, while two smaller factions lost one seat apiece.