Disagreement over economic policy opened ideological rifts among Iran's ruling elite. |
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The groove resembled the rifts between continental blocks that Wegener's theory of continental drift predicted far too closely for comfort. |
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These days, people will tear rifts in the fabric of space-time for any old reason. |
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Your soul has rifts torn by hardships and suffering in the past, and the more you have endured, the easier it is to be consumed. |
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At the heart of the rifts within the body politic is an enormous growth of social inequality. |
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Savarics Uzumaki finished the staff and opened the dimensional rifts to allow passage into a new home for demons. |
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Joe followed the fence line, watching for stray cattle, and any rifts in the taut rows of barb wire. |
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Other social and economic developments deepen the rifts in Chinese society. |
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With the handover in sight and the rifts patched over, the chancellor and prime minister have never been so publicly united. |
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Their distinctive, close-harmony singing became their trademark and survived musical fashion and family rifts. |
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These hard core rifts spawn waves of enemies that eventually culminate into a titanic boss, and anyone in the vicinity can jump into the fight. |
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Guyanese voters will hope so, but cannot feel confident that the election will resolve the underlying rifts. |
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Cliffs forming the margins of rifts are thought to have developed in this way, with retreat occurring since the Late Cretaceous in Precambrian to Palaeozoic rocks. |
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With a free wheeling expressive mind-set the band seem incredibly focused, displaying fetching guitar rifts demonstrating a resemblance comparable to a Libertines stage show. |
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Peren spirits her viewers off to this holiday paradise to reveal the existent rifts in an apparent idyll, not for the sake of beautiful images. |
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But in telling the history of tiffs, fudges and rifts, he only leaves the reader thinking: well, no wonder. |
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Fight in exciting battles and navigate your sub through mysterious subaquatic worlds and unknown ocean rifts. |
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It notes that this issue is very sensitive and must not lead to rifts within the European wine sector or even a boycott of the reform proposals. |
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Your subaquatic journey to the depths of this browser game leads you across ocean ridges and rifts to sunken cities and dark underwater caverns. |
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The presence of this entity signifies intense levels of ultramundane energies and dimensional rifts and when detected evokes the joyfully horrific. |
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The rifts are cut by a number of major faults, along which many of the major stratovolcanoes are positioned. |
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The Quebec Court of Appeal decision has created some personal and political rifts between feminists in Quebec and Canada. |
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The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour. |
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First, it clearly marks the end of post-war rifts within Europe and is therefore of deep political significance. |
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Although some sites are situated in regions of high seismic faults or rifts, none of the respondents mentioned seismic danger. |
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The Risorgimento was made into Italy's founding myth, its narrative carefully doctored to hide the bitter rifts that had in reality separated the moderates and the democrats. |
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Elections represent a transitional stage in the context of which opinions polarize within the society and rifts can come to light. |
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The episode deepened rifts between UCPN-M on one side and NC and UML on the other. |
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Like many African communities, the Acholi believe that deep social rifts are caused by killings and require elaborate reconciliation mechanisms to restore fractured relations. |
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In other words, the revival of religious millenarianism was a pre-patterned localised response to the social rifts and cultural crisis induced by French colonialism. |
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A few stars glittered coldly in the rifts between the clouds. |
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In secret, using technology known only to themselves, the Ta-Kee were able to open quantum rifts, similar to Portals, between the universes and pass from this to another. |
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Extension associated with lengthening of the Himalayan collision orogen is accommodated by small graben and rifts almost at right angles to the strike of the collision zone. |
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Preacher's Cave turned out to be a large natural chamber scooped out of a limestone cliff, with rifts in the roof acting as chimneys opening out onto powder blue skies. |
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These conflicting memories often leave vast rifts between post-conflict peoples and without doubt slow down any reconciliation process. |
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The earlier presidencies had plenty of internal ideological rifts, but the incidence of scandal and investigation was not exclusive to one side or the other. |
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Younger rifts in the north, part of the East African Rift System, are occupied by Lakes Mweru and Tanganyika. |
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Strategy: being liquid, converting the rifts in spaces which are not to be filled, when the ground is occupied, to occupy the underground. |
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These volcanic rifts gird the globe like seams on a baseball, making ocean crust and, over the eons, moving the continents around like putty. |
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Many chapters have opened lines of communication with diocesan officials in an effort to find common ground but, in many ways, the rifts have only grown deeper. |
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Such dangerous localities or malloseismic areas are found along the faults or rifts where there has been recent shifting or on low and soft ground adjacent. |
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Trance features as many as 150 beats a minute, coupled with a thumping bass and a variety of sounds ranging from psychedelic bleeps to hard guitar rifts. |
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I think we should adopt a pragmatic approach and overcome any misguidedly ideological rifts. |
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It is a logic of selective pairings, of exclusive groupings, of separation, rifts and disaffiliation. |
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We also need to narrow the knowledge divide which cumulates rifts in knowledge creation, preservation, acquisition and sharing. |
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Current rifts need to be mended, whenever and wherever possible, as a sign of goodwill and a new beginning. |
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The revision of Canadian history and mythology to encompass the fullness of racialization may initially lead to rancorous debate and painful rifts. |
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The members of these groups made undreamt-of fortunes from privatisation, which not only caused major rifts in society, but also gave them the necessary means and the desire to enter into politics. |
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A committed fighter for peace, King Hussein showed great courage and determination in trying to overcome the rifts that repeatedly plunged his region into war. |
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We have to realise that international conventions need to reflect the new state of play in a considered manner, using procedures which do not cause rifts. |
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Right now there are no major rifts threatening to boil over, but should there be a weaker ruler in Tashkent, or a stronger one in Dushanbe, long-standing rivalries could become very problematic. |
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Undersaturated basalts are most common in these rifts. |
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Today, it is no longer the factory and the enterprise that reflect social conflict, the socalled class struggle, but the urban fabric itself, the city, that is the spatial vector of the new rifts in society. |
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This natural area, covering more than 13,000 hectares and made up of crests and rifts of conglomerate rock and Mediterranean woods of holm oaks and pines, is home to an important natural and architectural heritage. |
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Covert research or direct challenges to legitimate authority risk increasing participants' vulnerability, deepening rifts within the community and actually impeding the advancement of social justice. |
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Indeed extensive rifts directly induced the NEBn outbreaks, and probably the appearance of the NEBs projections as well. |
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It would cross the Juan de Fuca Plate, the slab of crust that boils with seaquakes, undersea volcanoes, colonies of tube worms and exotic organisms that thrive in fiery rifts. |
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Caving, or speleology as it is sometimes called, can give you the chance to abseil down underground waterfalls, squeeze through holes and abseil down rifts. |
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It was based on comparative investigation of geophysical, tectonic, kinematic and magmatic processes of intracontinental rifts, their crustal and upper mantle structure, and their global plate tectonic settings. |
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They thus hold the promise for a viable alternative to explanations which require high temperature asthenosphere as a source of large volumes of igneous rocks in some continental rifts and rifted continental margins. |
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It lends plausibility to the idea that some former loyalists, after years of internal rifts and months of defections, might be ready to shop Pol Pot to obtain acceptable terms for abandoning the armed struggle. |
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And like every family, it has its divisions and rifts. |
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Even a friendship that goes back many years is not immune to deep rifts. |
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The war created very deep rifts which have not yet been bridged. |
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The same applies to drawing up models of unity, global understanding and reconciliation to bridge the painful rifts which threaten peace in this world of ours. |
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Beyond the rifts between different groups and people, we very rarely hear of people mentioning the USA's overwhelming superiority in terms of conventional weapons. |
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This type of assistance may also be required as a result of civil unrest to help community members on both sides of the protests to heal some of the rifts in the community. |
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Are contemporary arts and cultural policies able to contribute to the creation of just and equal societies, and heal long-established rifts between different sections of national communities? |
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If the implications of the findings are relatively non-controversial, neither provoking rifts in the organization nor running into conflicting interests. |
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This linguistic diversity should not be used as a reason to create rifts but rather mutual understanding, learning each others' languages and cultural backgrounds. |
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On Earth, rifts can occur at all elevations, from the sea floor to plateaus and mountain ranges in continental crust or in oceanic crust. |
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Where rifts remain above sea level they form a rift valley, which may be filled by water forming a rift lake. |
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Typically the transition from rifting to spreading develops at a triple junction where three converging rifts meet over a hotspot. |
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Most rifts consist of a series of separate segments that together form the linear zone characteristic of rifts. |
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Segment lengths vary between rifts, depending on the elastic thickness of the lithosphere. |
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In subaerial rifts, drainage at this stage is generally internal, with no element of through drainage. |
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Some rifts show a complex and prolonged history of rifting, with several distinct phases. |
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Many rifts are the sites of at least minor magmatic activity, particularly in the early stages of rifting. |
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The sedimentary rocks associated with continental rifts host important deposits of both minerals and hydrocarbons. |
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Continental rifts are the sites of significant oil and gas accumulations, such as the Viking Graben and the Gulf of Suez Rift. |
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In 1999 it was estimated that there were 200 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves hosted in rifts. |
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The rifting that took place between North America and Africa produced multiple failed rifts. |
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Divergent boundaries within continents initially produce rifts which eventually become rift valleys. |
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As the two active rifts continue to open, eventually the continental crust is attenuated as far as it will stretch. |
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When one of the rifts opens into the existing ocean, the rift system is flooded with seawater and becomes a new sea. |
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Rivers diverted into these early rifts deposited sand and gravel to form the Klipheuwel Group in the west, and the Natal Group in the east. |
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The formation of the modern Andes began with the events of the Triassic when Pangaea began to break up that resulted in developing several rifts. |
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Navigation on the river is difficult because of a number of rifts, rapids and whirlpools. |
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A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. |
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And the rifts produced by the idea-besotted '60s continue to bedevil us. |
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Molten rock erupts onto the seafloor there, then cools and rifts away from the ridge on either side in a process known as seafloor spreading. |
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Moss says the major crustal faults and continental rifts at Island Copper bear striking similarities in geological composition to Olympic Dam. |
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On this basis, although Hormoz Island has saline lands as salt dome, ups and downs and highlands with rifts each marked with a color are found. |
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This type of transitional crust is characterized by abandoned rifts and continental blocks, such as the Blake Plateau, Grand Banks, or Bahama Islands offshore eastern Florida. |
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As the crust bows upward, fractures occur that gradually grow into rifts. |
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Often the extensional fault systems are segmented in these rifts. |
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However, a combination of famine, Qing naval opposition, and internal rifts crippled piracy in China around the 1820s, and it has never again reached the same status. |
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The three-volume set surveys the geology of extensional basins including rifts, passive margins, and inverted extensional basins around the world. |
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These influences have later resulted in serious rifts and in the breaking down of the monolithic apostolic church to different fragments under different faith stream. |
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If they continue, continental rifts will eventually become oceanic rifts. |
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