Former U.S. President and Ohio native William Howard Taft started the League to Enforce Peace, which had support from anti-war political factions.
The party grew in power and influence until the First World War, which resulted in the party fracturing into pro-war and anti-war factions.
The Athenians at the time believed it was the work of saboteurs, either from Syracuse or from the anti-war faction within Athens itself.
There was a strong anti-war faction in Britain, who grew in strength after a number of military setbacks.
If there's an anti-war faction of the Republican party to be grabbed, he was doing the best job of grabbing it (or of raising the stakes for whatever other Republican might want to).
Muscovite anarchists split into two groups, with the larger faction supporting Kropotkin and his "defensist" associates; the smaller anti-war faction responded by abandoning Kropotkinite anarchist communism for anarcho-syndicalism.
He became a leader of the staunch anti-war faction of the PSR, along with the famous Maria Spiridonova, Isaac Steinberg, the veteran Mark Natanson and others.
Okubo's views were supported by the anti-war faction which mostly consisted of those returning from the Iwakura Mission.
We are witnessing the unedifying sight of the pro- and anti-war factions in the Security Council seeking to win over the undecided countries through bullying, bribery and even blackmail.
Gradually, anti-war factions gained in influence in the party and Ludovic-Oscar Frossard was elected general secretary in October 1918.