Hungary ceased enforcing its stretch of the Iron Curtain, opening a fissure through which East Germans began to head west in droves.
It either opens a fissure in their relationship or reveals one that had been there all along, though those are only two of the many possibilities.
If my children were a few years older, they'd surely have been praying for the Ancient Playground to open a fissure and transport them all the way back to the Pharaonic age.
Mr. Shanley complicates this feeling of gender ambiguity later when Father Flynn, having gone to Sister Aloysius's office for a meeting, sits behind her desk without asking permission, an assertion of power that opens a fissure in his easygoing facade and says more about the church and gender than any of their increasingly heated exchanges.
But, analysts say, he has opened a serious fissure in the face of Islamic rule and one that may prove impossible to patch over, particularly given the fierce dispute over the election that has erupted amid the elite veterans of the 1979 revolution.
One of them was caused by the pin placed too close to the fracture line, and the second one by the pin that opened a bone fissure that was not correctly appreciated by the surgeon.
The Conservative leader sacked Powell, and thus opened up a fissure in his party which persisted.
Third, the constitutional reform opened up a fissure between authoritarians and democrats in the chavista camp.Mr Chávez faces a choice: move quickly to a command economy, or to more sustainable policies.
"No cohort in human history has opened such a fissure between its material conditions and its intellectual attainments," he thunders.
The brutality of Bashar al-Assad's regime is opening a dangerous fissure between the Alawite minority, which rules the country, and the majority Sunni population.
