Mr. Abbas says the Palestinian security forces will not be used to crack down on armed factions.

But the group says it will not lay down its weapons and has not called on other factions to stop attacks.

After three important splits in the early 1960s, the police cracked down on both the far-right and far-left factions in the same month, March 1964.

Lenin's 1921 ban on factions allowed Stalin to reduce and then eliminate intraparty democracy.

Despite the mayoral change, however, tensions remained high, with the blame being placed back and forth on various factions.

He felt that what makes this work is the setting's focus on factions and their ideologies.

24 When Irenaeus arrived in Rome, he found on every side groups and factions that challenged his own understanding of the gospel.

He has learned to play on factions and nerves.

Later on new factions and new parties formed about several of the dominant personalities, but that time had not yet come.

If American troops were part of an international army to impose peace on warring factions, the standards for participation would be much higher.