The Shamsi airbase was the only military base in Pakistan being used by the United States, and orders of its evacuation by US personnel symbolised an increasing rift and deterioration in relations between Pakistan and the United States.
On the contrary, EU funds are increasing the rift between media close to the government and the rest".This rift is becoming especially apparent during election campaigns.
Maliki (a Shiite) on the other hand, played on increasing the rift between Sunnis and Shiites when he could have easily benefited from a golden opportunity throughout his two terms to create a true and lasting national reconciliation.
He stressed that "austerity measures are still increasing the rift between rich and poor, North and South more public and private investments are lacking".
As strike-slip motion accumulates, pull-apart basins are stationary with respect to underlying basement, and the fault tips propagate beyond the rift basin, increasing the distance between the fault tips and pull-apart basin center.
The strikes that broke out in the Tehran bazaar last week, while provoked by a proposed income tax increase, reflect the growing rift between the conservative factions, with the merchants, or bazaaris, on the side of the traditionalists.
With a stagnant economy, an increase in emigration and a growing social rift between Israel's Ashkenazic (western) and Sephardic (eastern) Jews, there existed a widespread belief that the Israeli dream had run its course.
It has already opened up a rift between the real estate industry, which wants to increase sales, and the banking industry, which wants to get out from under staggering volumes of troubled mortgages.
