The MS-13 gangs have cliques, or factions, located throughout the United States and Latin America.
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Even during the Soviet era, these shadowy cliques manoeuvred for political power in Tashkent.
The idea that the party can be different and avoid such cliques and factional fights seems unrealistic.
So unrest there has to make Washington wonder about the longevity of other ruling cliques in the region.
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Fans also can form cliques and post ripostes visible only to their pals.
The only uncertainty in that event is which of the cliques of brutal communists will be in charge of the next Killing Fields.
Lampard also revealed that Rooney was instrumental in breaking down the cliques that existed in the England squad and caused tension among the players.
The entire class was engaged, and I saw social cliques break down as students from various walks of life resonated to lessons learned from superheroes.
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Unrepresentative cliques used power in dubious ways to pursue extremist ideas.
This was the only major scandal in Japan that became public as a result of investigative reporting rather than leaks prompted by factional battles between government cliques.
"I figured everybody might already have their cliques, " said Copeland, who has playfully been forced to wear a Dora the Explorer backpack this season by his older teammates.
To keep our leaders honest we need to constantly challenge that power, work to break entrenched power cliques, and demolish barriers to entry and exit in our political system.
"I bet your mouths are watering as much as mine right now, " she said, adding that her life goals included "someday seeing the first woman president" and eliminating cliques at school.
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While all this debate can be productive, and does affect the small political cliques formulating policy at Westminster, there is still a long way to go before blogs can claim mass appeal.
At home, the Kaczynskis claim to speak for the ordinary, honest Pole, tired of being bullied and patronised by foreigners and of being ruled by corrupt cliques and incompetent bureaucrats, Jan Repa says.
But 28 female spongers did form strong groups, or cliques, with other spongers who weren't necessarily related to them, the researchers report in a paper published online Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
Even more so, it is incredibly important for females in the workplace to be aware of this phenomenon because the troika breeds cliques, drama and hurt feelings that take away from productivity and synergy.
As most of us have experienced, high school is all about forming a clique and segregating that group from the other cliques in the battle for the top of the high school pecking order.
For that matter, the infusion of vast, undisciplined sums from the United States, other nations and multilateral institutions may make it possible for the initial or subsequent Palestinian ruling cliques to do so on their own.
Desegregation of American jails meant inmates from different races were integrated for the first time, and simmering tensions between them saw prisoners group together along ethnic lines in cliques such as the Black Guerrilla Family or the Mexican Mafia.
Mr Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, points out that state capitalism's fate is bound up with the fortunes of some very unpleasant political cliques, such as the Saudi royal family and the Russian oligarchy.
In Soviet days, incidents like these were never reported, even though everyone in the theatre world knew about the acrimony between cliques around well-known figures such as veteran Soviet choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, or star dancers Vladimir Vasiliev and Maris Liepa.
Regional cliques, from such places as Dnepropetrovsk (home to Messrs Lazarenko and his successor, as well as to Mr Kuchma's old rocket factory and to the reform-minded Mr Tigipko), have simply grabbed what Soviet assets were worth taking and then, in league with government, used an array of regulations to keep genuine entrepreneurs out.
Never mind zapping movies and sitcoms over the Web (that is so Nineties)--Semel is betting on "social media, " letting some of Yahoo's 200 million registered customers create their own content and share it with whomever they choose, linking up in rich multimedia cliques to swap pithy commentary and photos, songs, games, home videos and interactive fare that users themselves will invent.
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