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The schism within the GOP makes it all the more difficult to mobilize public opinion against Afghan refugees.

The position reaffirmed their own validity — and their own authority — among a world of competing voices, as society fractured into increasingly numerous schisms during the 1960s.

She’s got so much on her shoulders and a real schism within her.

“There’s a schism in our picture of the world, and this is bridging that gap,” said Leron Borsten, a physicist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

To see that schism playing out in companies’ bottom lines, just compare the results of struggling fashion retailers like Banana Republic, Macy’s or Nordstrom with those of those of Lululemon Athleta or Old Navy.

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Aberdeen, perched on the North Sea, offers a perfect example of the schism between the top and bottom earners.

The schism in Wisconsin was the first crack in the Republican Party's hegemony.

Instead, journalists reached back to an earlier Republican schism from the days of Ulysses S. Grant.

Those are all products of political systems gone badly awry—through schism, invasion, or breakdown.

For the House of Israel, such authenticity has posed the threat of a schism, between Israel and Diaspora.

More than this, Jacobitism brought the National Church into peril of downright schism.

Even Bishop Ken said of him that he showed zeal to make the schism incurable.

This latter party had been rent asunder by the nonjuring schism.

The schism was not confined to the narrow limits of the Byzantine empire.

So ended the schism; and Bernard left Rome within five days after finishing his work.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to schism, such as: alienation, breakup, disagreement, discord, dissension, and fissure.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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