(n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The TABP tendency of the boys decreased as the manifest dissension or conflict in the family grew, in marked contrast with the tendency seen in girls, suggesting that conflict in the family can either weaken or reinforce TABP.
(2) But political errors on the home front soon brought internal dissension, arguments with his foreign backers, and a return to Congo's endemic civil war.
(3) The file notes said: "Action could be taken to discredit prominent Communist and other public figures, and to propagate dissension in Communist parties and organisations by (i) dispatch of forged letters through the post, and (ii) the planting of manufactured evidence."
(4) Even as he faces a major new crisis and weeks of bad news to overcome – a lackluster GOP convention; deeply negative views of his handling of the attack in Libya; dissension in the campaign ranks – Romney is maintaining a remarkably light campaign schedule, York writes : He had one public appearance on his schedule Monday, Sept. 17, a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
(5) Coalition dissension pivots around the statutory Prevent guidance shortly to be issued under the Counterterrorism and Security Act .
(6) Without mentioning Moscow by name, Pyatt said there was also an "active campaign right now" to stir up dissension and division across the country.
(7) Now it seems to have been postponed again in the face of great military difficulties and dissension between the Kurdish and Iraqi forces, who are both fighting Isis together and manoeuvring against each other for position in the scarcely imaginable peacetime Iraq that must eventually emerge from all this horror.
(8) So our jobs just became a bit more important, not only to brighten the spirits of those who need it, and to make sense of what’s going on, but also to make sure voices of dissension and criticism are heard.
(9) In recent years the field of Japanese psychiatry has been troubled by dissension and occasional violence.
(10) To emphasize the problem of the objectification of the vertebral painful syndrome at the polyclinic they present two case reports, draw attention to the dissension of views of polyclinic specialists as concerns etiopathogenesis of vertebral diseases and related to it the problem of objectification with regard to work ability.
(11) Dissension over music resulted in a multitude of other brawls and Jet magazine reported that a white officer was killed in Quang Tri after ordering black soldiers to turn down their music.
(12) In an apparent reference to Iran, which Gulf Arab ruling elites fear may capitalise on an uprising by Shiites in Bahrain, he also expresssed "strong rejection of any foreign interference in the kingdom's internal affairs, asserting that any acts aiming to destabilise the kingdom and sow dissension between its citizens represent a dangerous encroachment on the whole GCC security and stability."
(13) However, considerable dissension has surrounded the concept of neutrality.
(14) The controversial dissension concerning the nature of the pentose cycle in liver is investigated.
(15) Suicidal and self-destructive behavior on a psychiatric inpatient service are said to be related to the degree of staff demoralization and dissension.
(16) By the 1980s the decline of psychiatric power, dissension among ex-patients, and new social trends vitiated the anti-psychiatry movement.
(17) Where the journalists' subterfuge, misrepresentation and use of clandestine devices themselves create public dissension from cabinet decisions that otherwise would not exist, the journalists cannot claim that they were acting to prevent a pre-existing misleading impression.
(18) His public challenge to US, British and French direct military intervention is likely to deepen Nato dissension and alarm western leaders who hoped Turkey had now acquiesced in the thrust of the Libya mission.
(19) The break followed "a review of his coaching needs", and there was no dissension in the camp.
(20) When his casting was announced, there was dissension: he wasn’t hot enough, they said.
Disunity
Definition:
(n.) A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Public criticism of Ed Miliband's leadership by senior Labour figures is creating an impression of "toxic disunity" and risks handing the next election to the Tories, according to party grandee Dame Tessa Jowell .
(2) The disunity in Palmer’s party has only complicated the government’s task in finding the votes it needs.
(3) The attorney general, George Brandis , said he was sure the Liberals could put the disunity behind them.
(4) However, the lack of any questioning of the European commission’s position on the timeline surprised Brussels veterans, wearily used to displays of EU disunity.
(5) I very much regret that they do not not seem to care about creating an appearance of disunity which does damage to the party.
(6) The commisssion warned the candidates and their teams to "strictly avoid applying discriminatory languages and tribal, racial, linguistic, regional, and religious prejudices which cause … disunity among the Afghan people".
(7) Now though, after years of disunity and faltering advances, its influence has shrunk to a section of central Syria and the southern border with Jordan.
(8) Every single time there is a Ukip conference it finishes with a story of disunity and it is all being caused by one person.
(9) As was the way in the late 60s, they had developed a lot of radical ideas – “about disunity and provocation and abandoned strands of urban theory” – but never really had the opportunity to put them into practice.
(10) And, in a sign of further disunity in the ranks, Saam Idriss, a key leader of the opposition's military wing, the Free Syria Army, said he refused to recognise the appointment last week of an interim prime minister.
(11) But the campaign, pitting Labour cabinet members against one another, deepened the wound of disunity.
(12) Calls for unity are meaningless without first spelling out on what basis people should unite and working out where the disunity came from in the first place.
(13) The government is well advised to limit his exposure.” He added: “His purpose is not to engage with the Muslim community [but to engage in] politics and disunity.” The ALA wants to contest the next federal election, largely on an anti-Islamic platform that includes a moratorium on immigration from Muslim nations, and a ban on face coverings such as the burqa and niqab.
(14) Obama's re-election team, based in Chicago, watched with glee, hopeful that the disunity on display and a protracted, energy-sapping campaign will work to their advantage.
(15) After years of disunity and faltering advances, its influence and territory has shrunk, while Islamist groups have grown.
(16) The G20 summit brings together the world’s biggest economies, representing 85% of global gross domestic product (GDP), and Merkel’s chosen agenda looks likely to maximise American isolation while attempting to minimise disunity amongst others.
(17) Set aside the merits of the issue and just consider this as a case study in political management: disunity, people opining all over the shop, people leaking against colleagues – overlay knights and dames = bad week.
(18) Without it, the short-term economic collapse might be worse, but its continuation only emphasises the disunity lying behind the apparent success of short-term bailouts.
(19) Trump scorned the party’s disunity, telling CBS in an interview broadcast on Sunday congressional Republicans were “terrible negotiators”.
(20) The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, hit out at disunity within Labour, blaming both sitting MPs and Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson, who criticised the party’s approach to Brexit.