breakaway faction

This decision caused some criticism from party ranks and led to the formation of some minor breakaway factions.

Talk of reform can even be heard from radical breakaway Palestinian factions, still based here despite government denials.

He previously served as head of the breakaway faction, Justice for the Elderly.

He had been endorsed by a smaller breakaway faction.

Groups like these always suffer rifts and breakaway factions.

In recent months, though, the camps here have come under attack by a breakaway faction of the ethnic Karen insurgency that governs them.

General Lister formed a breakaway faction, which reconciled with the mainstream party only in 1986.

Those in the breakaway faction, they said, are mostly ethnic Pashtuns.

The breakaway factions were much more bizarre than ever before, but people had grown used to this, and their horror had lessened.

Two breakaway factions were formed which condemned the purge.