Right before the 1999 presidential elections another major schism took place within the party.

Not since the 1872 election had there been a major schism in the Republican party.

"It has created a major schism, but the schism was always there," he said.

Since 1774, the denomination has undergone four major schisms, three of them due to members who considered the denomination's position to be too strict.

That act constituted the first major schism in the church in more than a century.

The result was the movement's first major schism.

Mary's opposition soon turned into a major schism in the palaeoanthropological village.

After this major schism, several other groups have also departed from Conservative Laestadianism.

The near-immediate result of the council was a major schism.

His death was followed by major schisms that still reverberate.