1.   For a few nervous moments Thursday, it appeared that the feuding factions would clash.

2.   For the party to recover, the feuding factions may not have to compromise.

3.   He proved a patient negotiator capable of forging consensus among feuding factions.

4.   In accepting the nomination, Hagelin called on the feuding factions and all independent parties to unite as an alternative to Republicans and Democrats.

5.   Instead, he cited his success in uniting feuding Tibetan religious factions while reaching out to leaders of other religions and his acceptance of science alongside spirituality.

6.   Leaders of the feuding Kurdish factions in Iraq personify the passions that have divided Kurds and made it easier for outsiders to manipulate them.

7.   Some argue that Washington should have done nothing since Hussein entered the Kurdish area at the behest of one of the two feuding factions there.

8.   The feuding factions will not even wait until the official start of the convention, on Thursday, to open fire.

9.   The foreign forces are also plainly intended to prevent various ethnic and regional warlords from turning Afghanistan into a bloody realm of feuding factions.

10.   The police dragnet, he said, extends far beyond the two feuding political factions.