31.   After each ruling, the strong religious factions in the Parliament seek to restore that power through legislation.

32.   Boutros-Ghali is also being asked to encourage talks between between rival factions in Burundi, with the help of African leaders and the organization of African Unity.

33.   Bush will also have to cautiously navigate roiling factions in his own ranks.

34.   But even as he attacks Bush, Forbes finds himself tussling with Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes for favor among a formidable Christian conservative faction in the Iowa GOP.

35.   But Cone, a Jesuit altar boy in high school, is uneasy about the increasingly strident religious faction in pro sports.

36.   But his standing among other factions in the Northern Alliance is tenuous.

37.   But several Republicans close to different factions in the House leadership described a situation in which neither Gingrich nor Livingston necessarily wanted to preside over the impeachment vote.

38.   But there are many factions in the Islamic world.

39.   But then Saddam intervened in conflicts between Kurdish factions in northern Iraq, and the United States responded by bombing military targets in southern Iraq.

40.   But this would alienate the liberal and anti-Ozawa factions in the LDP.