Sentence examples for movements split from inspiring English sources

As for what nonviolence strategists call the "pillars of support" of the existing system -- armies, police, media, those working in government itself -- effective nonviolent movements split those supports and can even cause their disintegration, while violent resistance strengthens them.

— The American labor movement split today [Aug.

But the movement split several times, culminating in the break that spawned Jund-ul-Islam.

Mr. Rana said that in the past year the movement split into two factions.

But your correspondent would not be surprised if instead the movement split.

His years in AIM were chaotic; he resigned six times before the movement split.

When they were assassinated and the student movement split into angry factions, Hunter's disillusionment was profound.

But since the movement split in January the combined vote of the rival factions has almost halved, according to opinion polls.

At the end of that decade, when the student movement split into two factions, the university campus became the scene of a small war.

Almost from the beginning, the free-verse movement split into two groups, one led by Amy Lowell and a more formal one led by Pound.

The Rwandans had already spurned Mr Bemba when he asked them for support.The RCD's advance began to stall, and then the movement split.