Sentence examples for schism as from inspiring English sources

Within months of its founding, even Machen's new church suffered its own schism, as, eventually, did the new splinter sect.

One New Yorker, Alexander Hamilton, saw the schism as his opportunity.

Set in the 16th century, "Red" presents the schism as the incursion of Renaissance painting -- representational, three-dimensional and with an individualist vision -- into the sultan's court.

The laws that followed their condemnation were more generally enforced and, though there was some resistance (some communities still existed in the 6th century), broke the schism as a powerful movement.

For the three displaced Cubans whose lives James sketches in "Ninety Miles," the gulf between the diaspora and the homeland is felt as a bitterly personal breach, a "family schism," as Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo puts it.

Labour is not performing spectacularly well, but there has been no meltdown as many commentators eagerly predicted before the last election and there has been no schism, as there was in the 1980s, a split that gave the space for Margaret Thatcher to win landslides.

Finance has its annual calendar, too, marked with festivals known as results seasons in which the lucky participants receive their temporal (rather than spiritual) dividends.And like any self-respecting religion, finance has its doctrinal schisms as well.

Schism is as much a disease of the far-right as the far-left.

Douthat had raised the possibility of "an outright schism" earlier this year, as well, and his warnings have been echoed by a number of other church leaders and commentators.

Corvalán's Communist party suffered the usual schisms, as part of the party remained in Chile working underground under the Pinochet dictatorship, with the leadership mostly in exile.

The power of the story lies as much in the lucid, understated prose as the depiction of a future society split into a thousand schisms as Snake deals with love, prejudice and a host of moral and ethical dilemmas that characterise the fractured world.