"You accomplish much more for the party by putting everybody in mainstream party politics, where there is a common agenda and common purpose, rather than in separate factions that petition for their special interests," Mr. Pendleton said.
It quickly emerged, however, that two separate factions would be competing with each other.
Yet they were men associated with separate factions within the Imperial Navy whose differences dated back to the early 1920s; factions that carried on their rivalries with only slightly less ruthlessness and fanaticism than they carried on the war.
Two separate factions mounted fashion shows in New Delhi last week, to be followed by Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai that began Friday.
Three rival popes had been selected by separate factions of the church, and a group of bishops called the Council of Constance was trying to heal the schism.
Stephen Brown said Porter would have been working in an "incredibly bullying environment" in which at least 15 separate factions within the union pulled in different ways.
It will be the 11th fund-raiser that the party (and its separate factions) has held across the country since early March.
The death of Omar has split the group into separate factions, as has the emergence of Omar's former deputy, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, as the Taliban's leader.
The camp had been used as recently as six months ago by at least one of two separate factions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the officials said.
Al-Qaida's goal of creating an Islamic caliphate spanning the Muslim world is limited to a pocket of lawless boltholes controlled by separate factions.
Except instead of two separate factions venting ill-humor toward one another, there were three to be taken seriously, and maybe four, with a remote chance that someone else from the hills might join in the mischief.
