fissiparous

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• The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.
• Management of his fissiparous, some would say ungovernable, party will be not the least of his challenges. Times, Sunday Times
• The task of resolving the euro crisis lies in the hands not of one nation, but of seventeen fissiparous democracies. Times, Sunday Times
• All error is what physiologists term fissiparous, and in exterminating one false opinion you may be hindering the growth of an uncounted brood of false opinions. On Compromise
• The hope of these minorities is that a fissiparous Pakistan, with its history of dysfunctional civilian and military governments, will give way in the fullness of time to a sprawling Greater India, thus liberating Baluchistan to pursue its destiny as a truly autonomous region. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
• One year after that he wrote in Earthquakes in London a fissiparous climate-change drama with thinly realised characters among them a glacial female politician which was given an explosive staging by Rupert Goold. The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review
• Regeneration has been entrained to complete an asexual life cycle in fissiparous and comet-forming starfish.
• During the past two weeks, the Union of the Parliaments has become more fissiparous than at any time since 1707.
• [T] he picture that this report paints is one of small, sectarian and chauvinist groupuscules, reproducing in this country the fissiparous and distrustful community loyalties of the subcontinent. Young British Muslims at the mercy of extremists because of out-of-touch Imams
• His coalition is broad and fissiparous, and the communists, who were the ruin of his last government, made a strong showing.