Sentence examples for widening rift from inspiring English sources

First, we have the gubernatorial nomination of Cuccinelli, exemplifying the widening rift within the Republican Party.

There's a widening rift between corporate profits and the jobs they create.

Hamas's victory in Gaza, and its widening rift with Fatah, have left many residents feeling afraid.

The scandals and the scourges of crack cocaine, homelessness and AIDS were compounded by a widening rift between Mr. Koch and black New Yorkers.

He played down the widening rift between Russia and the United States, and even purported to pity Obama, depicting the U.S. president's statements as a result of stress.

The accusations were a tipping point in a widening rift between Mr. Maliki's Shiite-led government and leaders of the country's Sunni minority.

A ROW over nuclear power is widening rifts in the alliance between Labour and Liberal Democrats, who together have ruled Scotland since devolution in 1999.

Two years after an election that seemed to portend a new era of comity, American politics has resumed what now appears to be its permanent condition of polarization, quite possibly worsened by widening rifts within the two major parties.

As it goes the distance for international dominance, how carefully is it measuring the cultural distance between its antique past and its modern present, or the widening rifts between its classes, rifts that are leaving the rural peasant population, not so long ago a celebrated source of strength, a disenfranchised majority again?

However, the traditional Arab powerhouses are being marginalized by the more dynamic non-Arab states on their periphery Iran, Turkey and Israel as well as by some Arab states, such as Syria and Qatar, that have profited from the widening rifts provoked by the new Middle Eastern cold war.

In fact, data is beginning to show widening rifts between rich and poor countries, and glaring disparities within developing nations.