Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schism created by the two councillors may be spreading through the ranks of the organization. Shortly after the contract renewal, several members of the CCA left the group and joined the Cambridge Alliance, a group of centrist Cantabrigians disappointed with the current state of the city's political scene, according to alliance President William J. Zamparelli...
...HRRC Vice President Thomas E. Woods '94 criticized the schism, saving a new organization is the wrong way to bring about change...
...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...