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Splintering in sentence

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This political entity is a precise counterpart in the political world to a well-known physical phenomenon of splintering or fissuring.
Worse, given the splintering of rebel forces in the South, where an estimated 80 tribes and clans control their own militias, a military response could generate a power vacuum in Sudan and destabilize the nine countries – many of them fragile or failed states – on its borders.
There are also fears that the splintering of Dokubu’s militias has created fertile ground in the Delta for Islamist groups.
Now splintering, some seem willing to stop pandering to Bolshevik ghosts.
To some extent, this is already occurring, with Iraq and Syria splintering into sectarian or tribal units.
As soon as those activists begin demanding independence, however, they risk splintering their support and losing the moral high ground that they gained with their campaign in 2014.
Colonialism, slavery, the splintering of Africa into small countries, and a long history of resource exploitation may be matters of the distant past to the perpetrators, but not so to those who suffered as a result.
However, while this has blurred the old division, new ones have emerged, splintering today’s world into four inter-connected tiers.
Now, in the twilight of his remarkable papacy, Pope John Paul II appears to be presiding over the splintering of those once loyal divisions, and the creation of a bitter divide within the Church of his homeland.
Because of the splintering of political parties, India has had only one single-party government and eight coalition governments in the last two decades.
Perhaps more problematic, Chinese influence is fueling support for Internet balkanization – the splintering of the global Internet into smaller, closed national networks – in a number of countries, including key players like Brazil, Russia, and Turkey, and even has sympathizers in Europe.
With the bloc splintering into distinct political tribes, it is becoming easier for other powers to pursue a divide-and-conquer strategy.
But make no mistake: the risk of the country – and its military – splintering is very real, as Yanukovych’s decision to sack Volodymyr Zamana, the head of the armed forces, attests.
Their stated intention now is to prevent the internal splintering of the EU.
The brig immediately sent a second ball on the post betrayed by the smoke, but without any other result than that of splintering the rock.
The fifth knight alone maintained the honour of his party, and parted fairly with the Knight of St John, both splintering their lances without advantage on either side.
The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--"Love of ladies, splintering of lances!