(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.
Schism
Definition:
(n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been succession of schisms which have left Reclaim Australia without anyone clearly in charge, and there were relatively small numbers at the most recent rallies which, at least in larger cities, were outnumbered by counter-protesters.
(2) Judith Martin Winchester, Hampshire • I have never voted Conservative, and would never consider voting Ukip, but I think Douglas Carswell deserves more credit than your rather begrudging editorial gives him ( Schism-on sea , 29 August).
(3) On the other hand, there is no doubt that the schism in the Anglican Communion would have happened much more slowly and perhaps not at all without the help of the internet.
(4) It is likely that the report will widen the schism between budget carriers and regional airports on the one hand, and long-haul carriers such as British Airways and international hubs such as Heathrow on the other.
(5) Finland is certain to reject another bailout for Greece to avoid a schism that could topple its two-month-old government.
(6) This could lead to a formal rather than de facto schism, with conservative churches around the world realigning under the authority of Gafcon.
(7) The goal of this contribution is to give an overall survey of the analytic schisms in the New York area from 1934 on.
(8) TalkSport parent UTV Media's split from the RadioCentre could create a schism in the commercial radio industry and prompt other operators to quit the radio trade body, a senior industry figure has warned.
(9) Amid claims in the markets that politicians in Athens were playing a dangerous game of bluff, a potential schism in the monetary union saw borrowing costs for Spain and Italy rise over fears that contagion could spread from Greece through southern Europe.
(10) Behavioral pediatric dentistry is in flux, much like the world that it serves; there appear to be schisms within the profession regarding one aspect of this: the presence of parents in the dental operatory.
(11) The Benedictines were there long before the 16th-century Reformation, before even the schism of 1054 that divided the eastern and western church.
(12) This discordance in the origins of curative medicine and public health does not explain why a schism between them still persists.
(13) Nearly all these "snapshots of women's lives", as she calls them, show the protagonists attempting to put a brave face on the disappointments of everyday life, or the schism between their public and private selves.
(14) And one of the experts who signed today's letter has just defended the divisions within the world of economics (which the Today Programme dubbed a schism).
(15) The longer the main parties remained in conflict, the more the schism was felt an affront to the Palestinian sense of self and dignity.
(16) It worries me that many commentators present or interpret the contested issue of the renewal of the Trident programme simply as a schism between “multi” and “uni” lateralists within the Labour party (“ Blue on blue, red on red.
(17) The Anglican schism over sexuality marks the end of a global church | Andrew Brown Read more C of E officials have also averted a threatened boycott of next week’s meeting by the more liberal wing of the Anglican communion, following a controversial invitation from Welby to the leader of the conservative breakaway Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to participate in the meeting.
(18) It is being watched closely in Nigeria , Africa's most populous country, which has its own, sometimes violent schism between a predominantly Muslim north and largely Christian, oil-rich south.
(19) C of E fears talks on gay rights could end global Anglican communion Read more Three months after Robinson’s election, Anglican leaders met at Lambeth Palace in London in an attempt to prevent a schism.
(20) Saudi-Iranian rivalries have deep roots, of course, and the roots of the Sunni-Shia schism run even deeper.