Sentence examples for on dissension from inspiring English sources

Mr. Donnelly, who has been in the House since 2007, is hoping to capitalize on dissension among Republicans in the state.

After a long career at the university, he was commissioned in 1230 to serve as French envoy to Pope Gregory IX to advise Gregory on dissension at the university.

Asturian kings, presenting themselves as the heirs to the Visigothic monarchy that had ruled Spain prior to the Muslim conquest, capitalized on dissension within the Moorish ranks and expanded their holdings in the late 9th century.

All that would do is sow seeds of dissension on the other side.

Lot of dissension going on there.

We have to win one and that would be the more logical game because of the fact that they're not playing real well, there's a lot of dissension going on over there".

But later, in an interview with The Times, one juror said dissension on the jury worsened as the deliberations went along.

On Monday, however, there were signs of dissension in the ranks, with some people in the company registering alarm at what is going on at the top.

An internal Opel survey of 332 managers showed that three-fourths of them didn't think the company was being managed efficiently, and 70% didn't think the company put enough emphasis on quality.; The story of dissension at Opel broke in a nine-page story in the May issue of the German monthly business magazine Capital.

But unlike the Kirov Ballet, whose head, Oleg Vinogradov, was replaced by a de facto director after a financial scandal, the Bolshoi seems to thrive on internal dissension.

Caught up in China's broad crackdown on political dissension after the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa this year, Mr. Ai was detained by state security officials in April, held incommunicado this spring and later charged with tax evasion.