The word 'schisms' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to divisions or disagreements between two groups or individuals. For example: "The schisms between the two political parties have become more pronounced in recent years."
But some fear that to focus too much on deep-seated religious schisms is to ignore the local complexities of such regional conflicts.
In itself that represented little surprise: buck-passing and poor leadership, if not a lack of it altogether, has been glaring over a summer in which Rangers' demise triggered schisms and machinations.
The concatenation of factors feeding into the Syrian morass, from meddling foreign powers to sectarian and class schisms, have created a perfect storm that may only be tamed by consuming itself.Which leaves only those small consolations.
More than 80 Burmese tried hard to set aside the schisms that date back to their days in the jungle.
The ideological schisms which caused that struggle have largely healed.
It had no territorial ambitions to satisfy, and no ethnic schisms to resolve.
In January this year she introduced a bill to dissolve the SI and set up a new federal intelligence agency.The schisms within and between agencies responsible for investigating the bombing and Mr Nisman's death make it unlikely that either case will be solved.
But even skimmers got the message: the European Union was a vitally important experiment, an attempt to transcend the ideological, nationalist and ethnic schisms that had cursed the continent.
A blacklist to bolster democracy ReprintsThe month of fighting last summer, which left 1,200 Lebanese dead and thousands more homeless, sharply deepened internal schisms.
More important, there was a fear that raising the issue of the Syrian presence would blow the old sectarian schisms open.Shia leaders welcome the Syrians because of their shared enmity to Israel, and because Syria's influence has helped to curtail the Christians' historic dominance.
One strategy that might help, says Eisuke Sakakibara a prominent former official and now a leading Koizumi detractor is to exploit schisms in the LDP when backing candidates, even those who become independents rather than join the DPJ fold.
