For a time there were two factions on the campus fighting for possession of the student body.

Lincoln's appointments were designed to keep both the moderate and Radical factions in harness.

The city had long been ruled by kings born to the Penthilid clan but, during the poet's life, the Penthilids were a spent force and rival aristocrats and their factions contended with each other for supreme power.

Both were the mere puppets of factions, who deserted them at once.

National Alliance was a heterogeneous political party and within it members were divided in different factions, some of them very organized:

The two factions were originally known as " hard " ( Lenin's supporters ) and " soft " ( Martov's supporters ).

The two factions were in a state of flux in 1903 – 1904 with many members changing sides.

At the Fifth Congress held in London in May 1907, the Bolsheviks were in the majority, but the two factions continued functioning mostly independently of each other.

The Central Powers ( German: Mittelmächte ; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak ; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri ; Bulgarian: Централни сили ) were one of the two warring factions in World War I ( 1914 – 18 ), composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

There were many disagreements amongst factions of the Rump.

There were reports of armed clashes between the factions in Syria during the split.

The factions were often generationally identifiable, representing individuals who had entered the party at different times.

There were also smaller factions within the Italian Fascist movement, such as the clerical Fascists, who sought to shift Italian Fascism from its anti-Catholic roots to accepting Catholicism.

To complicate matters, the two leading factions of Nicene Christianity in the East, the Alexandrians and the supporters of Meletius in Antioch, were " bitterly divided ... almost to the point of complete animosity.

Moreover, there were some factions that supported Germanism in the country.

Serious civil disturbances, which were heavily respressed by the presidential guard, led to an agreement between the government and opposition factions to work toward a political settlement.

The emperor Titus's dignified yet confident ease in his management of an amphitheatre crowd and its factions were taken as a measure of his enormous popularity and the rightness of his imperium.

The two leading Democratic candidates were Roswell P. Flower and Henry W. Slocum, but their factions deadlocked, and the convention could not agree on a nominee.

Afterwards, factions arose and the last three Rashidun caliphs were murdered.

The revolutionary armies were formed by cacos, peasant brigands from the mountains of the north, along the porous Dominican border, who were enlisted by rival political factions with promises of money to be paid after a successful revolution and an opportunity to plunder.

The conservatives were divided into a host of personalist factions and lacked coherent leadership, but Bonilla made some efforts to reorganize the conservatives into a " national party.

From that point, there were various factions pressing for his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William III of Orange, to replace him in what became known as the Glorious Revolution.

In 1967, the PDPA split into two major rival factions: the Khalq ( Masses ) was headed by Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin who were supported by elements within the military, and the Parcham ( Banner ) led by Babrak Karmal.

Atrocities were committed by individuals of the different factions while Kabul descended into lawlessness and chaos as described in reports by Human Rights Watch and the Afghanistan Justice Project.

Based on the outcomes of various official storyline tournaments held at comics and gaming shops and major gaming conventions, when 2. 0 was released most of the major factions were renamed, and also further divided into one or more subfactions, each of which possesses its own unique ability.

From December 1823 to February 1825, he took part in the civil wars among the various Greek factions ; when his party was finally defeated, he was jailed in Hydra with some of his followers in March 1825, and was released only when an Egyptian army under the command of Ibrahim Pasha invaded the Morea.

Okamoto was released in 1985 after 13 years, as part of a prisoner exchange with Palestinian militant factions.

An expansion pack, Clone Campaigns, was released in 2002, adding two new factions and campaigns.

The final set of 7th Sea was released only in an online form and mainly to close the storyline and balance the factions.

In November 2004, TimeGate Studios and Atari released Axis & Allies, a real-time strategy game that let players play the role of World War II ’ s different factions.

* 2007-Six different " Ocean's Edge " tins featuring OE packs and multiple faction specific, tin-exclusive cards ( card #' s 143-162 ) released to various retailers ( two designs of which were exclusive to Target and WalMart stores respectively, and contained factions not found in the other tins ).

However, the three factions ' figures released before that set can still use the team abilities without having to require a faction pride card.

Later, in the same year, EA released a new version called " Command & Conquer: Generäle ", which did not incorporate real world factions or any relation to terrorism.

The two factions kept their separate structures and continued to operate separately.

During the 1980 election campaign the Patriotic Front alliance partners split into their respective factions and competed separately as ZANU-Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) and Patriotic Front-ZAPU ( ZAPU-PF ).

After the war, the two factions of the Cherokee tried to separately negotiate with the US government Southern Treaty Commission, but the commission chose to deal only with the minority pro-Union faction, headed by John Ross.

The groups in the film all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over ideological distinctions so small as to be invisible ; " ideological purity ", as Cleese once described it.

The effect of the threshold is to deny small parties the right of representation or force them into coalitions, with the presumption of rendering the election system more stable by keeping out radical factions.

To solve the ongoing feud, concerned residents of the city met secretly with Muhammad in Aqaba, inviting him and his small band of believers to come to Yathrib, where the Prophet could serve as disinterested mediator between the factions and his community could practice its faith freely.

He and the Alignment finally left the government in 1990, after " the dirty trick " – a failed bid to form a narrow government based on a coalition of the Alignment, small leftist factions and ultra-orthodox parties.

By that time, the Rejectionist Front was composed primarily of leftist groups, among them the PFLP, DFLP, General Command, PLF, and numerous other small factions.

* Political life: it revolved around the sovereign Ekklesia ( the assembly of all adult male citizens for deliberation and voting ), the standing boule and other civic or judicial councils, the archons and other officials or magistrates elected either by vote or by lot, clubs, etc., and sometimes punctuated by stasis ( civil strife between parties, factions or socioeconomic classes, e. g. aristocrats, oligarchs, democrats, tyrants, the wealthy, the poor, large or small landowners, etc.

While the difference in the definitions was very small, with Lenin's being slightly more exclusive ( Lenin's formulation required the party member to be a member of one of the party's organizations, whereas Martov's only stated that he should work under the guidance of a party organization ), it was indicative of what became an essential difference between the philosophies of the two emerging factions: Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters, whereas Martov believed it was better to have a large party of activists with broad representation.

After the disintegration of the Tibetan Empire, small local factions emerged.

Though it had been the standard-bearer of liberal economic policy and secular values in Israel for 30 years, the formation of Kadima robbed Shinui of its natural constituency, and in January 2006 the party split into small factions, none of which managed to overcome the 2 % threshold needed to enter the Knesset.

Lebanon however historically had a small cosmetic army that was never effective in defending Lebanon's territorial integrity, and this is why in later years the PLO guerrilla factions had found it easy to enter Lebanon and set up bases, as well as takeover army barracks on the border with Israel as early as 1968.

Some are de-facto nonpartisan because no law forbids the formation of political parties, and the populations are small enough that factions are considered unnecessary.

The National Council was created to consolidate Cherokee political authority after Andrew Jackson made two treaties with small cliques of Cherokee representing minority factions.

In 1665, one of these small kingdoms, Mbwila, underwent a succession struggle and the various factions appealed to Kongo and Angola for aid.

In 2259, unknown even to the Centauri Emperor, certain factions within the Centauri Republic had arranged for a small fleet of Shadows to destroy a Narn military base in Quadrant 37, killing 10, 000 of Narn's finest warriors.

* 1990s: Many small liberal regional movements are formed as dissidents factions of the main Liberal Party ( Independent Civic Movement, LIDER Movement, New Colombia Movement, Liberal Movement, Civic Popular Convergence, Let's Go Colombia, 98 Movement, Colombia My Country, Democratic Reconstruction Movement, Colombian Popular Party, Citizen's Movement )

During these times, small factions of MQM separated themselves from the main body of the party.

Regardless of stylistic divergence or political factions, the original concept of large and small frame practice within any one stylistic method still exists in modern Chen Taijiquan methods.

The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials.

As the war progressed, many of these small factions – at least the more politically-oriented ones – were destroyed in the violent power struggles of the 1980s.

The New York City organization remains the most influential of the party's factions because of its small army of hard-working volunteers and the financial support it receives from prominent politicians and Newman's own political and psychotherapy base.

Sigismund and Władysław left the city for safer ground as tensions grew, and the small Polish garrison at the Kremlin soon became isolated and subject to increased hostility, as more and more of the formerly pro-Polish boyars began to change factions.

The various factions went on to create small, short-lived political parties, many of which came under police scrutiny and were suppressed under the increasingly restrictive Peace Preservation Laws.

Godard likewise portrays the role that certain objects and organizations — such as Mao's Little Red Book, the French Communist Party, and other small leftist factions — play in the developing ideology and activities of the Aden Arabie cell.