If UMP does badly in June, there is some concern among supporters that it will fall apart, with some splinter groups forming an alliance with the National Front.
And even Mr. Cowherd broke out a couple of times, working up to some splintered, rolling phrases — elliptical, determinedly peaceful, but with teeth.
"Junk Magic" includes some splintered pianism, but here a grand piano served as furniture, supporting an array of effects pedals and sheltering a couple of laptop computers.
The Aristocrat is ready to give IVF — "like the initials of some splinter terrorist group, the Infertility Victory Front" — one last try.
Hamas, an Islamist but also Palestinian nationalist movement that took over Gaza two years ago, faces rebellion by some splinter groups accusing it of being too liberal.
Syria has long given residence to Palestinian factions opposed to Mr. Abbas, including Hamas and some splinter Palestinian groups, and many Palestinians recall Syria's decision to intervene decisively against them in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war.
System of a Down can be maddeningly indirect: you think you have a pretty good bead on a song, and then some splinter of humor or sarcasm or poetry, or a new beat suddenly confuses things.
Here, the distinction they mark is between Britons who consider them vulgar and Britons whose enjoyment of life is untroubled by such concerns, plus some splinter groups claiming them as a memory aid, or an investment (the record price is £500,000).
It didn't help that some splinter Islamist group started firing rockets into southern Israel again.LEXINGTON: Strange, though, how little attention that got in the world media, and just generally in the Arab world as well.MRS CLINTON: But that's because everybody is preoccupied.
