Sentence examples for major schism from inspiring English sources

The EU referendum has exposed the major schism between Labour and its core voters.

Beneath these trends was a pervasive sense that Catholic identity was entirely up for grabs — that having dispensed with Latin Mass and meatless Fridays, the church might be poised for further revolutions, a major schism, or both.

Thus, ʿAli became the fourth caliph (656 661), but the disagreement over his right of succession brought about a major schism in Islam, between the Shīʿites those loyal to ʿAlī and the Sunni "traditionalists".

One of the council's leaders insisted that the feud between District Council 37 and other unions over the living wage did not point to a major schism in New York labor.

In New York, the first major schism occurred in 1945, when a Hungarian, Dr. Sandor Rado, broke away from the paternal body and formed the Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute at Columbia University.

Although it has the support of at least 12 cardinals in Rome, others fear that its acceptance would cause a major schism among Catholics and set back efforts at ecumenism.

By "anything" Mr. Needham means legislation "that could expose or highlight major schisms within the conference".

The church's civil wars continued, but without producing major schisms.

Major schisms among the sponsors of the original conference emerged in 1961 and again in 1964 65, when China and Indonesia pressed for a second Asian-African conference.

Major schisms between the left-wing Popular Front and the political right characterized the 1930s in France, but among many there was also a belief that France's Third Republic was doomed and dissolute.

Leaders of the West, regardless of party, regarded the long-sought rapprochement with the East as a means of restoring the prestige of both the papacy and the ecumenical council, which could then be seen as having resolved both the major schisms of Christian history the Great Schism and the East-West Schism in the space of one generation.