Fissiparous

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. ❋ John Morley (1880)

A legacy of a strong nation unbroken by 'fissiparous' tendencies despite the dire predictions of foreign observers; a nation armed with nuclear weapons and missiles; a nation with the ability to assert an independent foreign policy and independent path of capitalist development, in the main, fully capable of holding its head high in the international community and world economic stage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

See, this is exactly why I parted with Protestantism: I could never discern any real desire for unity (which would have been impossible in any case because it is way too fissiparous). ❋ Unknown (2009)

One good thing about Protestantism, though: it force me to learn the word "fissiparous." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sixth and final app was the West's work ethic, which held together the potentially fissiparous society produced by the first five. ❋ Brendan Simms (2011)

[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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then there is the danger that Iraq's fissiparous character could drive it back into civil war. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile, in the past week the State of the Cycling Union seems to have slipped beneath "weak" and is now hovering somewhere between "fissiparous" and "moribund." ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

Africa consists of hundreds of fissiparous cultures and no culture anywhere is homogeneous and unchanging. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the most unoriginal way they have equated India, whose destruction has become their raison d'etre, with Israel as part of an archipelago of anti-Muslim neo-colonial powers asserting themselves to destroy the global (although highly fissiparous) Islamic community. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fortunately, the Centre has held together though badly scarred by fissiparous pressures. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

Belgium is notorious for its slavish adherence to the EU, but one wonders whether that has not been as an antidote to the fissiparous tendencies of its entities as much as anything and more a thing of the political elite and the socialist, corporatist, centralist Wallonia. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Bipartisanship is out: Political parties have fissiparous tendencies for a reason. ❋ Unknown (2009)