11.  Within the fractious state party, he gained a reputation as a conciliator.

12.  Yet he has been unable to unite his fractious party, and his whiz-kid persona has put off many Britons.

13.  Yet he must resume a fight not so much against the major party nominees as within his fractious adopted party.

14.  He held his fractious party together to win four elections, accounting for all but one of its victories since World War II.

15.  Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori reshuffled his Cabinet Tuesday in hopes of rebuilding public support and reuniting his fractious party.

16.  The previous Congress-led government collapsed when Chand and half of his fractious party voted against it on the prospect of getting the premiership in the next government.

17.  Major, already trailing in polls, was being squeezed between onslaughts from virtually all sides of his fractious party.

18.  Republicans open their convention Monday here where they will crown as their nominee Bob Dole whose challenge will be to keep together an increasingly fractious party.

19.  Some Chart Thai MPs are likely to break away from the fractious party as they face re-election, analysts said.