Sentence examples for small splinter from inspiring English sources

It is hardly the small splinter group that some conservative critics have recently tried to portray.

Though most were small splinter groups, Christian democrats eventually achieved power in Venezuela, El Salvador, and Chile.

"The decision to carry out the attack was made not by a small splinter group of extremist Islamic officials," Nisman wrote, but was "extensively discussed and ultimately adopted by a consensus of the highest representatives of the Iranian government".

In the 31-person cabinet Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change and a small splinter group from the same party, which have often been bitterly at odds, will together have a majority of one over Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF.

Among the enduring legacies of the earlier era was the split between liberals who opposed the war and the small splinter group that would become known as the neoconservatives.

She said she was from the nearby island of Basilan, a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf, which is a small splinter group from a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency in the southern Philippines.

"When the leg was opened, we found the knee-cap split half in two — the head of the tibia knocked into several pieces — & that the ball had followed the marrow of the bone for six inches breaking the bone itself into small splinters & finally had split into two pieces on a sharp edge of bone".

The election provides a model for opposition forces in other African countries, in many cases small splintered groups arrayed around personalities or ethnicity, who often lose power because of a failure to unite forces.

Whether such transmission results simply from oral exposure to virus, depends upon inoculation through the oral mucosa by small splinters of bone, or proceeds through some other pathway is not known.

This will break the end into several small splinters.

Peel the glue off for the hopeful easy removal of the small splinters.