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In 1991 the DFLP split, with a minority faction led by Yasser Abd Rabbo ( who had become increasingly close to Yasser Arafat ) favouring the Madrid negotiations that led initially to limited Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.
This was a public faction which initially included, in addition to the SWP, Gerry Healy's British section The Club, the Internationalist Communist Party in France ( then led by Lambert who had expelled Bleibtreu and his grouping ), Nahuel Moreno's party in Argentina and the Austrian and Chinese sections of the FI.
Although Molotov's faction initially won a vote in the Presidium, 7-4, to remove Khrushchev, the latter refused to resign unless a Central Committee plenum decided so.
His determination to preserve the independence of the Queen's administration from control of party faction initially enjoyed full support, but once royal favour turned elsewhere, the Duke, like his key ally Godolphin, found himself isolated ; first becoming little more than a servant of the Whigs, then a victim of the Tories.
The painting was initially displayed in the antechapel but a significant faction of the fellowship – including Michael Jaffé and Provost Noel Annan – were determined for the painting to become the focal point of an entirely redesigned east end.
The largest political group in the anti-treaty faction, who opposed the treaty initially by force of arms, had boycotted the institutions of the new Irish Free State until 1926.
On December 5, 1793, journalist Camille Desmoulins began publishing Le Vieux Cordelier, a newspaper initially aimed – with the approval of Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety – at the ultra-revolutionary Hébertist faction, whose extremist demands, anti-religious fervor, and propensity for sudden insurrections was problematic for the Committee.
On his arrival in Sweden he initially tried to gain time by confirming what had been done ; but the aggressiveness of the Protestant faction and the persistence of Duke Charles made civil war inevitable.
The opposition NF Flag Group contained the traditionalists such as Andrew Brons, Ian Anderson, Martin Wingfield, Tina Wingfield, Joe Pearce ( initially associated with the Political Soldiers ' faction ) and Steve Brady, who ran candidates under the NF banner in the 1987 general election.
The most famous of these are the war in the 40s BC between Julius Caesar and the optimate faction of the senatorial elite initially led by Pompey and the subsequent war between Caesar's successors, Octavian and Mark Antony in the 30s BC.
The story initially leads the informed viewer to identify the figure speaking to Ratcliffe and commanding the renegade faction as Davros, and to identify the imperial faction with the Daleks who captured Davros at the end of Revelation of the Daleks, with the stated intention of taking him to Skaro for trial.
The most popular faction was initially the local Socialist-Revolutionary that composed the local government together with Federalists and Mensheviks.
The CPGB was initially divided whether to embrace the organisation, the PCC initially sided with the pro-affiliation faction led by Ian Donovan.
The initially cynical seminary director, the abbé Pirard ( of the Jansenist faction more hated than the Jesuit faction in the diocese ), likes Julien, and becomes his protector.
Lovestone had initially called his faction the " Communist Party ( Majority Group )" in the expectation that the majority of the CPUSA's members would join him, but only a few hundred people joined his new organization.
Also in that faction was Bob Satiacum, initially a rival to Whitebear for the leadership role.
Even Karl Liebknecht, who became one of the most outspoken opponents of the war, initially followed the party line: he abstained from voting to not defy his own faction.
Ligachev supported reform of the Soviet Union and initially supported Gorbachev ; however, as Gorbachev ’ s policies of perestroika and glasnost began to resemble social democratic policies he distanced himself from Gorbachev, and by 1988 he was recognized as the leader of the more conservative, anti-Gorbachev faction of Soviet politicians.
It was composed by Ogino Tomoichi ( 1732 – 1801 ), initially a disciple in the Hatano-ryu faction, before acquiring the post of Kengyo in the Kyoto branch of the Maeda-ryu school.

faction and contacts
* A faction led by the mysterious Future Guy contacts the Cabal in the past to employ them for their own ends.
Through his contacts he became involved with notable figures on the Polish political scene, initially from the group opposed to the royal faction.

faction and humans
* " The Great Wall of Mars " ( 2000 ) by Alastair Reynolds, in which the most technologically advanced faction of humans is based on Mars and embroiled in an interplanetary war ; introduced some of the most important characters and groups in the Revelation Space universe.
* In the AT-43 universe, Earth, known as " Sol III " was the home planet of the humans who became the Therian faction.
They are categorically stated to be energy beings, with one being shown to be capable of transforming into the " green rings ", and are to some extent individualised – there is a dissenting faction in the " Mysteron consciousness " ( as a member of the faction puts it ) that believes that, given time, humans will outgrow their destructive impulses and become more like the Mysterons themselves.
In fact, a fringe faction of the Kzinti known as the Kdaptists, frustrated with the reversals their race had suffered against humanity, went so far as to adopt the human concept that God had created humanity ( not Kzinti ) in His image, and that He favors and protects humans over other races.
* 500 years after the events of Babylon 5, an expansionist faction of humans attempts to break away from the Alliance, leading to a nuclear holocaust that devastates Earth.
* Escape Velocity Nova: the Polaran faction of humans developed bioship technology to replace their depleted conventional fleet.
The other featured faction is the Demarchists, baseline humans who originally practiced a form of decentralised mass-participatory democracy, but whose civilisation was all but destroyed by a nanotechnology plague.
Appearing as a reluctant and listless ( and possibly alcoholic ) recruit of Masque's faction, she purposefully took part in Masque's plan to disfigure humans by bombing a subway train with a gene-altering chemical weapon.
That faction split has turned to war: something humans have not had for over a millennium.
, a short story by Bruce Sterling about a mission undertaken by a faction of humans, to understand and exploit a space-faring swarm intelligence.
The player takes the role of a survivor of a faction of humans known as the Tograns, whose society was decimated after their homeworld became engulfed in the civil war between the Freedom Guard and the Imperium ( who were once both the Sprawlers and the Jovian Detention Authority ( JDA ) from Dark Reign 2 respectively ).
The humans traveled to the isles and began slaughtering dragons of every faction and breed.
Set in a science fictional depiction of the 24th century, the game follows a faction of humans who colonize the Alpha Centauri star system to escape from a totalitarian Earth government.
One episode, " The Achilles Messenger ", reveals that a faction of Mysteron society does not want the war with the humans and a rebellion exists though the series was cancelled before this plot element was fully explored.
Tiberian Sun features three factions, each with its unique strengths and tactics ; the Global Defense Initiative ( GDI ), the Brotherhood of Nod ( Nod ), and The Forgotten ( non-playable, neutral faction of mutated humans who have been physically and mentally affected by the Tiberium toxins ).
A faction populated by humans and ruled by religious warlords, the Holy Griffin Empire propagates " Law and Order " and faith in Elrath, the Dragon of Light, as their supreme goals.

faction and led
Jefri's older sister, Johanna, is rescued by Pilgrim and Scriber, wandering Tines who bring her to the rival faction, led by Woodcarver.
Following Zuma's accession to the ANC leadership in 2007 and Mbeki's resignation as president in 2008, the Mbeki faction of former ministers led by Mosiuoa Lekota split away from the ANC to form the Congress of the People.
Pompey's two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus, and the Pompeian faction, led now by Metellus Scipio and Cato, survived and fought for their cause in the name of Pompey the Great.
Gladstone personally supported Home Rule, but a strong Liberal Unionist faction led by Joseph Chamberlain, along with the last of the Whigs, Hartington, opposed it.
Cleisthenes, however, found himself being politically defeated by a coalition led by Isagoras and decided to change the rules of the game by appealing to the demos ( the people ), in effect making them a new faction in the political arena.
The faction led by John Marshall Harlan and Rufus Peckham embraced a small-producer ethic and a fully competitive market ; these justices used the Sherman Act's prohibition of " restraint of trade " to outlaw price fixing by businesses.
On May 12, 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh presided over the signing of what is termed the final peace accord officially ending the decade-long civil war between the government and the armed faction of the FRUD, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, an Afar nationalist and former Gouled political ally.
Batavian auxiliaries of the Rhine legions, led by Gaius Julius Civilis, had rebelled with the aid of a faction of Treveri under the command of Julius Classicus.
Fearing their ultra-radical ideas, which crystallised in an attack on tithes, the conservative faction led by Major-General John Lambert, supported by the use of troops to deny access to the radical factions, engineered a vote for the dissolution of the assembly, which was passed on 12 December 1653.
Nevertheless the Carthaginian faction that opposed the conflict, led by the land-owning aristocrat Hanno the Great, gained power and in 244 BC, and considering the war to be over, started the demobilization of the fleet, giving the Romans a chance to again attain naval superiority.
Ammianus and Jordanes mention the Huns as scarifying infants ' faces to prevent the later growth of beards ; the Chinese recorded General Ran Min having led a military campaign against a faction of the Xiongnu Confederation called the Jie, who were described as having full beards, around Ye in 349 AD.
This led to the Parliamentary faction being nicknamed Roundheads.
British pressure, and tensions between the pro-and anti-Treaty factions of the IRA, led to a bloody civil war, ending in the defeat of the anti-Treaty faction.
The predominant faction, the " War Hawks ," were led by House Speaker Henry Clay.
He soon joined the " Democratic-Republican " faction led by Jefferson and Madison, and by 1791 was the party leader in the Senate.
Nehru led the faction of the Congress party which promoted Hindi as the ligua-franca of the Indian nation.
Somewhere 1994, ULIMO broke into two militias: ULIMO-J, a Krahn faction led by Roosevelt Johnson and ULIMO-K, a Mandigo-based faction under Alhaji G. V.
In January 1912, the majority of the Bolshevik faction led by Lenin and a few Mensheviks held a conference in Prague and expelled their opponents from the party.
But resistance from the conservative faction of the Roman Senate, led by Pompey, demanded that Caesar resign his proconsulship and the command of his armies before being allowed to seek re-election to the consulship.
He was a member of the Parcham faction led by Babrak Karmal.
The Bolshevik faction led by Lenin advocated an active, politically committed vanguard party membership while opposing trade union based membership of social democratic parties.

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