Sentences with 'rift'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rift and other words derived from it.
• « When Ali's son Hussein, then leader of the Shi'a and grandson of Muhammad himself, was assassinated by the Umayyads in 680, the permanent rift between Sunni and Shi'a was cemented. »
• « This incident exacerbated the rift between the president's team and the inner class in the nation's capital, which viewed the newcomers from Tennessee as lacking decorum and propriety. »
• « The high price of slaves in the 1850s and the inability of the natural increase to meet demand led some Southerners to demand the reopening of the international slave trade, a move that caused a rift between the Upper South and the Lower South. Whites in the Upper South who sold slaves to their counterparts in the Lower South were concerned that reopening the trade would drive down prices and thus hurt their profits. »
• « Insults in the form of words or behaviour, such as calling someone a coward, could trigger a rift that could well end in the arena of a duel. »