Ultimately these plans failed because he could not reach a consensus with the powerful Islamist factions.

It is composed of a leader from three powerful factions who form the triumvirate.

There is a powerful faction ready to take all our heads.

The Tajiks are the most powerful armed faction and have dominated politics for the last two years because of their military strength.

Verikoff is a member of a powerful faction that strongly opposed the Soviet attempt to open another channel.

We'll soon be dealing with three of the most powerful factions in the Romulan government.

However, his influence was much courted, and he led a powerful faction of Western members in Parliament.

Within the city council, religious political parties form an especially powerful faction, accounting for the majority of its seats.

But I fear that coalition is not the most powerful faction.

In 1525, she took control over one powerful political faction and neutralised another.