Athenian society was split into two factions, the Philistines and the Artists.

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

The savages divided into two factions ; ;

The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.

A reunion of the two warring factions took place in 1923 when the new Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin committed his party to protective tariffs, causing the Liberals to reunite in support of free trade.

At the end, the Congress was evenly split between the two factions.

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.

leading to a structure which has been called " one party, two factions ".

The interaction between the two main factions is largely complementary with each faction possessing a particular expertise and both committed to the continued rule of the Communist Party and not allowing intra-party factional politics to threaten party unity.

Within his " one party, two factions " model, Li Chen has noted that one should avoid labelling these two groupings with simplistic ideological labels, and that these two groupings do not act in a zero-sum, winner take all fashion.

The Congress became divided between two factions, between the one supporting Stalin, and those who supported Kamenev and Zinoviev.

The Congress was split between two dominant factions, radicals ( mostly Stalinists ) and moderates.

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

Lastly, he added two new factions to the chariot races, Gold and Purple, to race against the existing White, Red, Green and Blue factions.

The conquest of Syria by the Muslim Arabs in the middle of the seventh century introduced into the land two political factions later called the Qaysites and the Yemenites.

The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party.

However, on 28 December 2005, the leadership of the two factions agreed to submit a single list to voters, headed by Barghouti, who began actively campaigning for Fatah from his jail cell.

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.

His closest advisors formed two factions, setting the framework for the future First Party System.

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

There were two horses in the barn, a sway-backed dun and Jess Crouch's buckskin.

Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

They were camped beside a large column-shaped boulder: a man, his lubra, and two children.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

There never were two fames alike.

The sickness was gone and, after all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.

Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.

The last two were a red and a black chow.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.