Its wide range, originality and lucid style, plus its author's argumentativeness and refusal to wear the livery of any political faction, made a huge impact.

Good ideas appear to be routinely rejected, either based on the pigmentation of the proponent or his or her political faction.

Since each of these candidates was backed by a different political faction, their supporters cancelled each other out, and no one was chosen.

The same political faction may be referred to by different historians (or by the same historian in different contexts) by different names.

This was a group of colonial officers who deemed themselves reformist than an actual political faction.