Sentence examples for close a rift from inspiring English sources

Those leaders said he helped close a rift created by the protests, in which hundreds of Orthodox Jews demonstrated in Borough Park.

This might "close a rift in the historical cycle, by re-establishing on a planetary basis the ancient systems of Greece, Sumer, India and China".

An interim president, Dioncounda Traore, is trying to close a rift in the armed forces between plotters and those who remained loyal to the elected if ineffectual former government.

His words may go some way toward closing a rift that had developed between Britain and Ireland, the two sponsors of the Ulster peace talks, over the British action suspending the government in Belfast.

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 government should force older workers to delay retirement or accept lower occupational pension incomes to close a growing rift between the generations and help lead the economy out of the recession, according to two former government advisers.

A rift closes, and suddenly - a brighter tomorrow opens.

A Christmas party causes a rift among close friends.

Brendan Iribe, Oculus's chief executive, says that his firm is focused on producing a Rift "as close to a consumer product as possible".

The contrast between Mr. Acebes's remarks and the view of those closer to the evidence reflects a rift between officials and investigators exposed after the train bombings.

Upon their return, Jack realizes that the present year is when Tommy will be needed: he will have to travel back to 1918 and activate a Rift Key to close the connection between 1918 and the present and prevent disaster.