1.   Brown, who has no authority over the school district, nevertheless is being touted by both factions as a welcome peacemaker.

2.   Diplomatically, the United States treated the fighting between the two Kurdish factions as relatively minor.

3.   He said he would approach two center-left parties and a small far-right faction as possible coalition partners.

4.   The government recently named another faction as the official Unita.

5.   The troops arrived in Bosnia in December to separate the warring factions as part of the peace agreement.

6.   Unlike the British prime minister, the Japanese prime minister must horse trade to win as much support from various factions as possible.

7.   Atta Mohammed is a member of the same faction as the powerful defense minister, Mohammed Fahim.

8.   Barak has hinted he will try to form a broad-based government with as many different factions as possible.

9.   In recent years, he has been active in the dominant Golkar faction as head of the cooperatives and business department of the Golkar board under Harmoko.

10.   Iran sees the fighting between the Taliban and other Afghan factions as a source of instability on its border.