A1 The drive to pour tens of billions of federal dollars into rebuilding the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast is widening a fissure among Republicans over fiscal policy.
At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, last week, a fissure appeared over what technology would be most effective in improving education in the third world.
But news of Pence's speech provoked a considerable amount of dissent among attendees, revealing a fissure in the denomination over associating with President Donald Trump.
A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics.
But a fissure is growing.
My fingers are wedged inside a fissure.
But this contest over what it means to be an American, a fissure that may yet break into the open has been simmering for some time.
Not exactly dangerous territory with more than five months remaining in the season, but not a good spot for a team that appeared on the brink of a leadership fissure last month over social-media issues, of all things.
In 1955 an eruption in the east rift, accompanied by a series of violent quakes, was one of the most destructive in the island's history, with lava pouring from fissures over a period of 88 days, destroying more than 6 square miles (15 square km) of valuable sugarcane fields and orchards.
The 6-to-3 decision, a firm reassertion of federal authority, revealed a deep fissure within the coalition that over the past decade has provided the majority for a series of decisions curbing Congressional power and elevating the role of the states within the federal system.
The side meetings at the annual Munich Security Conference seemed to confirm the fissures over Syria, including a new disagreement between the United States and some of its European allies over whether to provide rebel fighters with more powerful weapons.
