1. Not surprisingly, such fractiousness is found mainly in failing firms. 2. The fighting has eased since then, but the fractiousness endures. 3. California has a long history of fractiousness within its delegation. 4. Newt Gingrich is reminding his former colleagues that this fractiousness is normal. 5. Their followers formed rival political parties, a fractiousness Washington had famously dreaded. 6. The reasons for the fractiousness , the experts say, are both temporary and systemic. 7. But Ms . Nicks also had her part in the group's romantic fractiousness . 8. So if you turn from foreign affairs to domestic affairs you get all kinds of fractiousness . 9. Instead, it threatens to become a symbol of the fractiousness and hatred that pervade the region. 10. Rep . James McDermott, D-Wash ., said, explaining the lack of fractiousness .