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rift

A rift is a large split or break. A rift opened in the ground after an earthquake. This caused a rift between the two men who had been so close.

rift

a gap between cloud masses the sun shone through a rift in the clouds a narrow fissure in rock (= break) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) they hoped to avoid a break in relations

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Simple sentences

My granddaughter's behaviour has caused a rift in our family.
A deep rift opened up between them.

Movie subtitles

They who would believe that a rift has opened in the unity of the Movement. deceive themselves.
And yet I detect a growing rift at the very center of our party.
There is a giant rift in its surface 5000 kilometers long.
He's right. We're heading for a time rift.
It's not me, it's a time rift.
Rhoda, Pug's an admirable man, and you're a wonderful woman, but there was a rift in your marriage before we ever met. There had to be.
The physical manifestation can be forced back into the rift.
A slip in the pronunciation of the greeting caused a 20-year rift.
If that hypothesis is correct, the phenomenon we have encountered is a temporal rift in space.
A rift?
It is possible that this exchange of fire was the catalyst for the formation of a temporal rift.
It is highly probable that the temporal rift is symmetrical.
Sensors show additional instability in the time rift, possibly the result of the battle with the Klingons.
We're going back into the rift, into battle.
Those missiles, they must have fired them to create a rift between us and the Guardians.
Cause a rift in my matrimonial bonds?
For several days, rumours of a deepening rift with the E.P.R. Had been deni.
The rift between those who looked east in the morning and those who looked west in the evening led to argument and abuse and ultimately to blows.
A sad event that led to a rift between this kind of animal and me.
It simply accelerates and deepens the rift between the revolutionary workers of Europe and the supporters of Scheidemann and so on.
Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I do hope I haven't caused a rift.
You can't, as they say, practice at the rift.
The rift.
The second passage creates a rift in time and space. The physical manifestation can be forced back into the rift.
Cardiff's got a rift through the middle of the city.
The rift was healed back in 1869.
But closing a rift leaves a scar, and that scar generates energy, harmless to the human race.
And it just so happens to be on top of the rift.
What rift would that be?
A rift in space and time.
You see, if the reactor blows, the rift opens, phenomenal cosmic disaster but this thing shrouds you in a force field, you have this energy bubble, so you're safe.
It's the rift.
The rift's opening.
It's the rift!
So the extrapolator was programmed to go to Plan B - to lock on to the nearest alien power source and open the rift.
The rift's gonna convulse, you'll destroy the planet.
Opening the rift filled us up with energy, we can go.

News and current affairs

But Bush neither invented American unilateralism nor triggered the transatlantic rift between the United States and Europe.
Now, the widening rift between the US and Japan has become starkly apparent.
Nor does he seem eager to open a rift with Israel by dragging its government to an international conference, the way his father did with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1991.
Indeed, his triumph exposed a rift among Iran's democratic forces, which were divided over whether to participate in the election, and rendered irrelevant the Green Movement born in 2009.
Indeed, the seizure of Shalit deepened the rift between Hamas and Fatah, which believes that the abduction was staged in order to sabotage discussions about a national unity government.
There is a clear rift between Putin and Medvedev.
Turkish policymakers would be well advised to seize this opportunity to consolidate the country's effectiveness as a regional actor, one that is uniquely positioned to stem the danger of a widening - and potentially extremely dangerous - rift.
Likewise, the rift between the eurozone's 17 members and the other ten EU countries is widening.
Had federalism been introduced in Somalia, for example, when the north-south rift emerged, it probably would not have ended up as a failed state.
While ensuring that their Alawite allies filled key positions in the military and intelligence services helped the Assads to retain their grip on the country, it was a strategy that widened and reinforced the Sunni-Shia rift among the population.
So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.
When eight European leaders published their appeal to heal the growing transatlantic rift, they were accused of undermining European unity.
Lukashenko, sensing the danger, has been making overtures to the EU to counter what he sees as a growing rift with the Kremlin.
The ideological and strategic rift between ISIS and Al Qaeda notwithstanding, an alliance against the common enemy - the incumbent Arab regimes and the West - cannot be entirely discounted.
Another such election in the near future, including the one set for January, is unlikely to occur, mainly owing to the continuing rift between the PLO and Hamas, which controls Gaza.
In both episodes, a missing handshake symbolized the countries' persistent rift.
The rift reflects not only ideological differences, but also disagreement about the objective of regime change.
The Massachusetts electoral debacle only highlighted the growing rift between the president's agenda and popular sensibilities.
That rift is unfortunate, because improvement in Chinese living standards ought to go hand-in-hand with Chinese participation in building a better world order.
In the former case, the transatlantic rift will deepen dramatically.
I believe it does, more than ever, because the rift between Europe and America leaves both sides substantially weaker in global terms.
The third phase began immediately after the 1969 Sino-Soviet military clashes, with the US actively seeking to exploit the rift in the Communist world by aligning China with its anti-Soviet strategy.
They could use the time, with international help, to build up effective state institutions, address economic development, and heal the rift between West Bank and Gaza.
Given the difficulties that even major players in the region face when dealing with the challenge of political Islam, it becomes clear that for the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, only compromise and dialogue is a feasible way to heal the rift.

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