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Example sentences for: rift

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According to the New York Times , Gramm had warned his Republican colleagues that censure would muddle the partisan rift over impeachment, making the issue less potent in 2000.
Not exactly Ossi and Harriet: The NYT runs a front-page story that is nearly a decade old: the continued economic and attitudinal rift between Western and Eastern Germans (known as Wessies and Ossies).
It said a rift was opening "between the more hawkish governments in London and Washington and anxious European allies desperate, for domestic political reasons, for a diplomatic and political breakthrough."
Jordan's lawyer also told the paper there is no rift between his client and Bill Clinton.
Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.