Word: schism
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...think it's very unfortunate that a small minority of the club was able to come here tonight and create what I see as a schism in the club. I hope that we're able to convince people that we still are the big tent party," said Luke A. Sarsfield '95, the club's treasurer...
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO -- ESPECIALLY FOR A prince and princess. This schism even warranted a statement from the floor of the House of Commons by the Prime Minister, who formally set some of the terms for what is, practically, the end of the 11-year marriage of Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Reading from a Buckingham Palace statement to a hushed chamber, John Major explained that the couple would not divorce but would lead separate lives, carrying out their royal duties on independent schedules and getting together only for the most important public occasions...
...vote's angry aftermath, rumblings of schism erupted not only in England but all across the Anglican Communion, with its 70 million members worldwide. Outside the synod hall, while women and their male supporters cheered and hugged, angry conservatives warned that thousands of members and clergymen would leave the church in protest. "I have become more and more disillusioned with the Church of England," declared Ann Widdecombe, an M.P. and junior minister in the Conservative government who quit the church after the vote. "Its doctrine is doubt, its creed is compromise, and its purpose appears to be party politics. This...
...Soviet state, but it is debatable whether Gorbachev would have achieved either aim had the hard-liners not made their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev suggests, that he might have succeeded in his second attempt to form a new, looser union in the months after the putsch if the Russians had not wavered in their support. Gorbachev gives the impression that the overwhelming vote for independence in Ukraine might somehow have...
...Even after the British invasion of the 1960s, black rockers like Jimi Hendrix, the Ohio Players, and Sly and the Family Stone danced back and forth across the color line. That ended with the disco era of the 1970s, whose slick, producer-driven, synthesizer-motorized tunes created a racial schism in pop music that has yet to mend...