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How to use the word dissension in a Sentence?

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And I told her, Well, that's what freedom brings. Freedom brings dissension — but it also brings unity, when a crisis comes, i was visible and very involved in America's rebuilding right after 9/11, as you know. And I continue to do that. I try to get rid of divisiveness and breed unity.

Lee Greenwood

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

United Airlines can not return the unvaccinated pilots to the cockpit because — aside from the various practical problems with testing and masking — we would face serious and widespread objections from the vaccinated pilots, in fact the objections among our vaccinated pilots are so strongly held that many of them would simply refuse to fly with the accommodated pilots. The distractions and dissension this would cause in the workforce represent an unacceptable safety risk.

Kirk Limacher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today’s indictment is a result of the hard work of America’s law enforcement and intelligence officials who dedicate their lives to bringing to justice those who wish to do us harm, these revelations add to a body of evidence confirming an extensive plot by Vladimir Putin’s government to attack the 2016 election, sow chaos and dissension among the American electorate, and undermine faith in our democracy.

John McCain

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

H. G. Wells

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Euripides

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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