| The advent of factions was an attempt to smooth over this alienation within the parties. |
| On three sides 12-metre high walls form a barrier between the two factions. |
| In the UK, however, all the sects and factions of the religion are free to worship and debate. |
| As the fighting factions are physically restrained, the verbal blows rain down harder than ever. |
| Keeping the warring factions behaving in a civilised fashion can be a very difficult job. |
| But a Shiah leader said the attackers may have been renegade tribal factions from within the Shiah community. |
