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Bipartisanship is out: Political parties have fissiparous tendencies for a reason.— The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
These forces have come about, have been created, by the practice of abusing a particularly fissiparous 'apolitical' strand of Islam through its deployment as western proxy - in a parody of a Cold War containment policy - charged with containing the forces of the Islamist revolution.— open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
This attitude of DG ISI also set a chain reaction of fissiparous tendencies, which led to a political divide in the ISI as well.— Bloggers.Pakistan
Egged on by his virago of a wife Theodora, Justinian conceived the megalomaniacal plan forcibly to reunify the fissiparous ex -— The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
A new communion of Anglican Churches may emerge from the present situation (indeed, it seems likely at this point), a communion centered in those vibrant Churches of the Global South, but without the centripetal force of communion with the ancient See of Canterbury I fear that the fissiparous nature of Anglican protestantism will assert itself, and we will see fractures between Churches and groups in that new communion on theological party lines.— The Confessing Reader

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