Sentence examples for major schism between from inspiring English sources

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

In my generation, there was a major schism between those who went to Vietnam and those who did not.

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.

At the party's second congress, held in London in 1902, a major schism erupted between Lenin and his supporters (the Bolsheviks) and Julius Martov and his supporters (the Mensheviks); Lenin emphasised a strongly centralised party controlled largely by the leadership, whereas Martov accepted a wider party with more independence of thought.

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.

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.

This clash of the Titans over SOPA has created major schisms.

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.

Filioque, (Latin: "and from the Son"), phrase added to the text of the Christian creed by the Western church in the Middle Ages and considered one of the major causes of the schism between the Eastern and Western churches.