Chandler won the Democratic primary, and for decades following, Clements and Chandler led opposite factions of the Kentucky Democratic Party.

These factions each drastically altered the way the game was played for their members, and there were great rewards for killing members of the opposite faction.

Sukumaran's rival, Satheesan (Jayasurya), leads the opposite faction of student politics and is aided by his sidekick, Vasu (Vijeesh).

Later in the book, in "The Black Gate Opens", there appears a representative of the opposite faction, The Black Númenóreans.

The next years were deeply marked by the clashes between the opposite factions, the pro-Catholic and the pro-Orthodox, who both tried to win over to their side the Ottoman authorities.

However, Wiseguy did feel that the opposite faction, the Inbounds, wanted to "deal."

Players on player versus environment (PvE) servers can opt to "flag" themselves, making themselves attackable to players of the opposite faction.

This allows players to place a bounty on players of the opposite faction who have recently destroyed their ship in space combat.

At its height, the members of a faction weren't allowed to enter the streets inhabited by members of a caste which belonged to an opposite faction.

Members of a particular faction weren't allowed to pray in temples which belonged to an opposite faction.