1.   I had achieved the remarkable feat of uniting the two factions at the party in mockery of me.

2.   At the moment we are sick of politics with one faction at cross-purposes with another.

3.   Other analysts said there is no evidence of the kinds of splits in the military that could produce a dissident faction at the present time.

4.   The breakthrough came after the United States pressured the Northern Alliance faction at the talks to drop demands that had threatened to stalemate the process.

5.   Pro-Communist trade unions were joined by opposing factions at a May Day protest outside the U.S. embassy.

6.   Delegates from other factions at the conference indicated earlier Wednesday that consensus was growing around the ex-king as head of a transitional administration.

7.   Dobbins, the U.S. envoy, indicated on Tuesday that the four factions at the table accept Zaher Shah as a unifying figure.

8.   Head of the Indonesian Democratic Party faction at the City Council Lukman Mokoginta questioned the authority of the company chairman to issue such a decree.

9.   Marwan Kanafani said Arafat was also convening his the Central Committee of the mainstream Fatah faction at the same time in Tunis.

10.   On Sunday, the group visited the dominant Golkar faction at the Assembly to urge its leaders to nominate Emil along with Habibie.