0 a group of people who have left a political party or other organization and formed a new separate organization:
1 a group of people who have left a political party or other organization to form a new, separate organization
First, does she accept that it is highly likely that splinter groups could seek to bring down the agreement by the use of force?
Long may that continue, but the splinter groups are very active.
So are their views, expressed in the clearest conceivable way, entitled to no effect because some small splinter group wants to destroy it?
A splinter group came, not on to a green lane but right on to my land.
The quartermaster may be part of that splinter group.
He would do a good turn to his party if he produced the sort of splinter group that has developed from my party.
One county mentioned that a small splinter group had received a sum of some £30,000 and was being slightly a pain in the neck of the established archaeological group.
That person may not be a member of a party accountable to a substantial number of voters, but may be a member of a small regional or splinter group.
