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Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said Mr. DeMint had opened a rift by backing Tea Party challengers.

Marks & Spencer yesterday moved to heal its damaging boardroom rift by naming the former Whitehall mandarin Lord Burns as its next chairman.

Democrats, meanwhile, have been trying to exploit the Republican rift by asserting that Mr. Bush's tax cut might weaken the military.

Hofer tried to exploit this rift by claiming that he was the candidate for the common man, as opposed to Van der Bellen (and his voters) being elitist.

The lawsuit also alleges that ZeniMax employees "literally transformed the Rift by adding physical hardware components and developing specialised software for its operation".

In the aftermath of this stalemate at Old Trafford, José Mourinho, the Chelsea coach who has tried all summer long to exploit Rooney's apparent rift by offering to buy him for less than market value, was the disaffected one.

And yet despite nudging Bill to "offer a strong argument in favour of Obama", Wolfson puts the burden on Obama to heal rifts by praising the Clinton presidency.

Noda may attempt to heal those rifts by appointing opponents inside the DPJ to cabinet posts, but there were no early indications he was preparing to bring in members of other parties, whose co-operation he needs to end political paralysis in the divided upper chamber.

Deccan volcanism dates to the Mesozoic era, near the Cretaceous Tertiary boundary, and subdued early rifting by erupting thick Deccan basalts over the Cretaceous sediments, shaping the basin basement.

Some of the furniture is one of a kind, like the painted metal chairs by Ron Arad, but there are Moroso prototypes, too, like the Rift sofa by Urquiola covered in African fabric, which sprawls in the downstairs sitting room.

But, he says, he has more to do, beginning with healing the rift caused by the civil-union law.