The phrase "a rift on" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is likely intended to convey a variation or interpretation of something, but the correct expression would be "a riff on."
Example: "The comedian's latest routine is a riff on current political events, providing a humorous take on serious issues."
Alternatives: "a variation of" or "an interpretation of".
In 2004, William Morris endured agent defections and firings after a rift on the board over the company's direction.
PAGE A8 Split on Election Report A Civil Rights Commission report criticizing Florida officials in the presidential elections has exposed a rift on the commission.
Now an expansion plan that involves building a second museum downtown has opened a rift on the museum's 45-member board, which includes some of the wealthiest art patrons in New York.
The differences over a provisional government exemplify a rift on Iraq policy that has bedeviled the Bush administration for months and disrupted planning for reconstructing Iraq if Mr. Hussein is deposed, Iraq experts and exile leaders say.
The house endorsed, by 342 votes to 275, a revised government programme submitted by the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.The vote was meant to have closed a rift on the right that opened two months ago when followers of Gianfranco Fini, once the prime minister's closest ally, founded their own group in parliament, Future and Freedom for Italy (FLI).
The issue of the shortfall also has exacerbated a rift on the City Council, which is split between Mr. Amicone's supporters and his critics, who insist that he has not done enough to trim spending on the Police and Fire Departments and other agencies on the administration's side.
The issue caused a rift last year on the state's Pension Modernization Task Force, prompting a group led by the Civic Committee to issue a dissenting report, in part because of concerns that asset smoothing was enabling the state to provide misleading estimates of Illinois's unfunded pension liabilities.
Furthermore, in a study of HIV-positive MSM in New York and San Francisco, participants perceived a "rift" based on HIV status within their gay community that was linked to depression, anxiety and loneliness (Wolitski, Dey, Parsons, & Gomez, 2002).
They may also signal an attempt to defuse the potential for a party rift on the issue.
The US is considering moves to provide additional supplies and arms to the government in Ukraine - as Russia has been accused of doing with sectarian rebels - but the EU has denied the emergence of a transatlantic rift on the issue.
The dramatic spat between Mr. Sharon and Mr. Ben-Eliezer, the prime minister and defense minister, over the operations in the West Bank had revealed a serious rift on how to deal with the Palestinians.
