Sentence examples for cause of dissension from inspiring English sources

The immediate cause of dissension was the board's decision in August 2010 to demand the resignation of Mr. Hurd, who had himself assumed the top position in the midst of board leaks and a phone pretexting scandal surrounding efforts to determine the source of the leaks that had laid bare irreconcilable differences among directors.

In a country where whom you know still matters at least as much as what you know, that is helping Turkey's disadvantaged east feel more involved in the democratic process.The east also happens to be home to many millions of Kurds, whose alienation from the mainstream of Ataturk's republic has been a cause of dissension and violence almost since the republic was born.

A more recent and local cause of dissension was likely over the division of Salisbury when the town of Amesbury was created from it several years earlier.

Dysfunctional boards almost always erupt into internecine warfare if nothing is done to allow the causes of dissension and disagreement to be addressed and, hopefully, amicably resolved.

By this time, relations between Jones and her lawyers were rapidly deteriorating; the lawyers attributed much of the cause of the dissension to the increased and consuming presense in Jones's life of Jones's "spokewoman".

"We find it ironic that a man who spent his life trying to bring black people together would be the cause of such dissension," Cedric McCluster, a spokesman for the improvement district, said as protesting members of the committee chanted "black power" and "no compromise" outside the state office building.

The smoking bill was not the only cause for dissension at a meeting that had the feel of the last day of final exams.

There is good political skill, which most people appreciate, and there is bad political skill, which causes a lot of dissension.

There may be no common ground but ample cause for dissent and plenty of dissension in between, but if and when the high court of the land, after carefully weighing the issues on either each side hands down its sacred verdict, all parties abide by it peacefully albeit reluctantly.

The Montana Democrat, an expert on foreign policy, did not accuse any particular American agency or individuals of causing dissension in Saigon.

My Muslim friends, don't be quick to blame me of causing dissension.