1.  And Clinton has the unity of a usually fractious party, despite his recent moves to embrace many Republican ideas.

2.  Both Clinton and Lott have made an effort to put a good public face on things within the context of the demands of their own fractious parties.

3.  He will eventually have to produce some kind of budget plan that unifies his fractious party and pass it though the Senate.

4.  His departure would leave the field to a fractious ruling party and an opposition divided and unsure of itself.

5.  It marked a politically significant attempt to assert leadership over a fractious party.

6.  Mondale was terminally bogged down by a fractious party too much in thrall to leftish special interests to appeal to mainstream voters comfortable with a genial, nonthreatening president.

7.  Some Old Labor stalwarts doubt Blair can convince his often fractious party to turn its back on years of socialist doctrine.

8.  The Democrats have traditionally had troubles recruiting people to take a job that involves refereeing internal battles in the fractious party and in essence functioning as its chief fund-raiser.

9.  Those factors make the fractious parties reluctant to wage all-out war again.

10.  Whether Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi can manage the internally fractious party from the right instead of its traditional centrist position remains to be seen.