Within the city council there are various factions representing different population groups, both secular and religious.

This double meaning ended the document in a manner satisfactory to both the religious and secular factions of the Yishuv.

He added that the party would refuse to deal with any group which "contradicts sharia," referring to the secular and liberal factions in Libya.

Around the corner was a banner from the Palestinian Authority, which is dominated by a more secular faction, Fatah.

This followed Shinui's split into Shinui and the Secular Faction.

He was later part of a group that broke away to form Secular Faction and then National Home, which merged into Likud.

Two MKs left the Secular Faction to establish National Home.

The faction received 600,000 shekels in party funding (transferred from Hetz, the Secular Faction's new guise).

Like pre-invasion Iraq, Syria has long been forcibly ruled by a secular faction based in a religious minority that has ruthlessly suppressed all opposition.

With no one in power exhorting them to try other tactics, Fatah militants, in theory members of a secular faction, have tried to out-Hamas Hamas.