1.   So if historians and filmmakers struggle, often one faction against the other, in mutual pursuit of the past, what recourse does the public have?

2.   Standing Firm permits the former vice president to set various other Republican factions against each other while trying to establish him as close to major league heft.

3.   The Khartoum government has supported various factions against one another in a largely successful effort to keep the south fractured, experts say.

4.   There were conflicting reports that Iraqi forces were again involved in backing one Kurdish faction against another in combat Sunday in northern Iraq.

5.   Tribal gaming also has an unsavory side, fueling allegations of corruption and embezzlement, and in some instances pitting one tribal faction against another.

6.   Any faction against his policy would be much-criticised internationally.

7.   He had moved quickly to rally warring factions against the Taliban, forming a northern alliance that has fought to prevent the Taliban from gaining full control of Afghanistan.

8.   Iran, like Iraq, has long played Kurdish factions against each other.

9.   Lese majeste laws have been used, however, by various political and military factions against their opponents and other reformers in the past.

10.   Massood had rallied warring factions against the Taliban, forming a northern alliance that has fought to prevent the Taliban from gaining full control of Afghanistan.