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How to use dissension in a sentence

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This incident is not the first serious outbreak of dissension within the security forces this year.
Amazingly though, their words and thoughts usually lead to yet more dissension, anger and violence.
He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire.
Once value consensus is eclipsed by dissensus, religion is a natural point of dissension around which political and cultural agendas cluster.
The two tried to join forces, with Chiang as the head of the National Revolutionary Army, but dissension led to a civil war.
In essence, we have an elected king and any real dissension within the government tends to hand all those powers to the opposition.
When others choose not to practice within the boundaries, dissension and even errors can result.
After much dissension and debate Parliament voted for the move to Wellington as a city near the centre of the country.
Political opposition to the Confederate government matched dissension within the western army.
The second broad topic of dissension concerns the modes of analysis in literary and cultural studies.
We will know such an effort has begun when dissension breaks out within America's key liberal institutions.
The collapse of the coup in the face of mass protests and dissension within the military required a shifting of gears.
It is a doctrine of legalized favoritism that must, by its very nature, lead to dissension, corruption and tyranny.
Children receive rewards for conformity to group behaviour and they are punished for dissension.
Without that measure there will always be arguments, dissension and massive problems.
No questions were allowed and there was no debate, dissension or discouraging words.
One of these was that religious dissension or aristocratic ambition could plunge a modern state into civil war.
An inability to act on instructions from the skip can be damaging to team morale, and can be the foundation of doubt and dissension.
Throughout these years of steady lay involvement, however, dissension within the group continued.
It was a positive message to a church troubled, internationally and domestically, with dissension and discord.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The storm cloud of dissension still hung threateningly, and the future looked black and dismal.
If they crackle or start away from each other, dissension and separation are ahead.
Scarcely less mischievous than these sowers of dissension, is the barber-surgeon, who still flourishes in Trinacria.
The dissension that now reigned throughout the land was great.
Great laughter among the Seniors, and signs of dissension in the Den.
It may too, by negligence, become a provoker of dissension and enmity.
The dissension filled the camp with excitement, agitation, and ill will.
But I disapprove of sowing the seeds of dissension in any church.
Indeed, religious dissension and sectarian heat were in the very air.
There was dissension in Greely's command almost from the start.
Three months of warfare had wrought dissension in the insurgent camp.
But no favorable circumstances palliate or atone for the disadvantages of dissension in the executive department.
After the hussars had come to the village and Rostov had gone to see the princess, a certain confusion and dissension had arisen among the crowd.
For a long while she could hardly believe that their dissension had arisen from a conversation so inoffensive, of so little moment to either.
In this reconciliation thou wilt own I have an interest the happiness of my friend, and the quelling of dissension among my faithful people.
This dissension led to much unnecessary trouble and bloodshed.
I reproach myself, most bitterly, for having been so unfortunate as to cause the dissension that occurred, although I did so, I assure you, most unwittingly and heedlessly.
This, says a certain learned author, who, I believe, was never quoted before in any but a law-book, would be the means of creating an eternal dissension between them.
The fact is, my dear fellow, there's dissension among the powers that be.
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