It is a splinter of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

licked to a splinter. How do you do, sir?

This tiny splinter of bone pressing on the brain.

In 2006 the Óglaigh na hÉireann emerged, which is a splinter group of the Continuity IRA.

Among the splinter groups that arose were the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) and the nationalist LPR.

Those who were given the Scripture did not splinter , except after the Clear Evidence came to them .

Those who were given the Scripture did not splinter , except after the Clear Evidence came to them .

Al Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof

A splinter of glass wounded Gregor in the face, some corrosive medicine or other dripped over him.

A decade of running and hiding from unrelenting surveillance and targeted drone attacks has caused the movement to splinter.

This may lead to the development of splinter groups that may further complicate the implementation of the peace process.

Ten years ago, as the Asian financial crisis savaged Indonesia s economy, many experts predicted that the country would become unstable, if not splinter.

Mr. Peter Splinter of Amnesty International observed that the overriding importance of follow up was to ensure that States abided by their human rights obligations.

These patients cannot feel when they are stepping on a foreign body, like a splinter, or when they are developing a callous from an ill fitting shoe.

Central authority is gradually eroding as the country continues to splinter into ethnic and sectarian regions, with a de facto Kurdish sovereign state already well established in the north.

Wellington, with fewer men, fewer armaments, stays one step ahead of the French, teasing them with his presence, knowing that a large army will have to splinter to keep up.

A complicating factor is that contemporary intra state conflicts are characterized by numerous small factions and splinter groups, making it virtually impossible to obtain the consent of all parties to the peace process.

The two largest parties in the country, the ruling Sierra Leone People's Party and the All People's Congress, are both experiencing intra party divisions, which have resulted in the emergence of splinter groups.

Some groups develop a wide portfolio of criminal activities, such as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), which started as a splinter faction from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in Algeria.

The team also expressed its sympathy with the Senegalese soldiers injured near the Chadian border in the course of an ambush by rogue elements of a splinter group of one of the rebel movements.

Mosul, Iraq's second largest city fell into the militants hands in June 2014 and is now under the control of the group, a splinter of the notorious Al Qaeda, which is also fighting in Syria.

This tragic event was followed the next day by a large scale, though short term, detention of AMIS personnel and advisers by a splinter faction of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) near Tine, northern Darfur.

In country after country, the guerrillas were defeated, pacified, brought into the democratic process, or rendered irrelevant. By the end of the twentieth century, only the FARC endured, together with a smattering of splinter groups in Mexico.

Top Bahrain government officials took to Twitter to show what is being perceived as support for the advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a splinter group of the terror organisation Al Qaeda, in Iraq.

A splinter group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has claimed credit for several recent attacks and kidnappings of foreign workers, and says it will not retreat until Delta states gain control of the revenue produced by locally extracted oil.

Iraq's second largest city Mosul fell into the hands of Islamist militants today (June 10). Reports say the militants are from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a splinter group of the notorious Al Qaeda, which is also fighting in Syria.

Sabri Khalil al Banna (Arabic صبري خليل البنا, May 1937 16 August 2002), known as Abu Nidal (أبو نضال), was the founder of Fatah The Revolutionary Council (فتح المجلس الثوري), a militant Palestinian splinter group commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO).

Conspicuously, whole battalions of this splinter Sunni army are being named after early Muslim heroes, such as Khalid bin al Walid, the companion to the prophet Muhammad who conquered the Levant Saladin, who recaptured Palestine from the Crusaders and Moawiyah Bin Abi Sufian, Muhammad s brother in law.

Pro Palestine activists have begun 're naming' Israel as the Jewish State of Israel in the Levant, or JSIL, in an obvious satirical allusion to the neighboring self proclaimed ISIS, a splinter group of Al Qaeda that has brutally taken over swathes of Syria and Iraq, mowing residents and particularly minorities in its path.