Sentence examples for social rift from inspiring English sources

"We will have a political and social rift".

Many in the conservative and the reformist ranks have called for such signals, observing that the election has deepened a serious political and social rift in Iran.

And yet, as pervasive as this social rift now seems, there is no good way to adjudicate it outside of the realm of electoral politics.

With a stagnant economy, an increase in emigration and a growing social rift between Israel's Ashkenazic (western) and Sephardic (eastern) Jews, there existed a widespread belief that the Israeli dream had run its course.

The motions underscore a growing political and social rift that has opened up since the redshirts swept into Bangkok in March, demanding the resignation of Abhisit and early elections.

The government action has been obscured by rows – such as the unexpectedly ferocious social rift on gay marriage, or the scandal of Jérôme Cahuzac, Hollande's lying tax tsar who was secretly dodging tax.

Social rifts also hardened during the period.

This contradiction largely reflects inconsistencies in the way we define "work," as well as deep social rifts concerning appropriate gender roles.

THE junta that has ruled Thailand since a coup last May says it will hand back power only after it has healed political and social rifts that make democracy unworkable.

So is this season's prevalence of "Oresteias" a confluence of ancient Greek omens or a theatrical response to global and social rifts at the turn of the millennium?

The resignation became an excuse for daily installments of distinctly German navel-gazing, exposing social rifts not just between left and right and young and old, but also between the buttoned-down old-school German culture of probity and prideful integrity on the one hand, and a dawning celebrity culture, laced with irony and skepticism, on the other.