Sentence examples for minor rift from inspiring English sources

Yasusada's hoax caused a minor rift in the poetry community, and nobody came out of it looking particularly good.

Most of the high plateau in East Africa that holds Lake Victoria does not contain volcanic rock and is cut only by small, minor rift valleys.

But what American officials portrayed as a minor rift between allies was seen by many commentators here as a sudden yawning chasm between Mr. Sharon and a president who had seemed reflexively supportive of the prime minister.

But people looking for the reasons why the Obama presidency has not lived up to its promise won't find the answer amid the minor rifts between key players.

Back in March 2010, I wrote for HuffPost that "people looking for the reasons why the Obama presidency has not lived up to its promise won't find the answer amid the minor rifts between key players....

Now I find myself draping my daughter's union flag over the TV in a feeble attempt to blot it out – but in the process I manage to cause a minor marital rift as my enraged husband misses a crucial bit of action".

Extension beneath the ice shelf is relatively minor as rifting centered north of Thurston Island early in the rift process.

Extension is minor, as rifting jumped north of Thurston Island early in the rifting process.

Most earthquakes occur at the subduction zones or along strike-slip faults, but some minor ones occur in rift zones.

But a quick database search reveals dozens of uses of riff (perhaps influenced by tiff, "minor argument") to mean rift.

The fault system includes a principal displacement zone (PDZ), where most horizontal displacement is accounted for, and a transtensional splay zone (TSZ) in the southern side consisting of a major basin at the fault tip, the Terror Rift, and minor ones paralleling it cratonward.