41.   Senior White House officials later told reporters traveling with Bush that Koizumi had agreed to deliver that message to moderate factions within Iran.

42.   Shirzai and other anti-Taliban leaders interviewed in recent days described a widening split between moderate and fundamentalist factions within the Taliban.

43.   Some U.S. officials believe that there is a faction within the Taliban that sees him as a liability that they inherited from the previous Afghan government.

44.   Sovich said reports of factions within the union -- if perceived by management as a sign of weakness --could harm negotiations and result in another work stoppage.

45.   The doll seems to have satisfied most factions within the deaf community.

46.   The president wages a daily battle to keep his country economically afloat while fighting off demands and threats from different factions within his party.

47.   The Radical faction within the party wanted the confederate states kept out of the Union until they guaranteed full civil and voting rights to freed slaves.

48.   The split in the sport was caused by factions within IndyCar racing who claimed CART had moved away from its oval-track roots.

49.   The three officials formed an influential faction within the Kremlin, and their dismissal represents a major clearing of unpopular, hardline figures from top levels of the government.

50.   There are also concerns that factions within the alliance will resume their old battles.