French-English translations for clivage

cleavageOn the contrary, they further aggravate these social cleavages. Au contraire, elles aggravent ces clivages sociaux. There is a sense of the need for more Europe, which is slightly different in the two parts following social and economic cleavages. Il existe un besoin de plus d'Europe, lequel diffère d'un côté et de l'autre en raison des clivages sociaux et économiques. Let us overcome the cleavage between those in favour of a national sovereignty, who at one point nearly prevailed, and the federalists, their opponents, who by no means had everything their own way! Dépassons le clivage entre les «souverainetistes» qui, un moment, ont failli avoir le haut du pavé, et les «fédéralistes» qui n'ont pas eu raison de toutes les embûches!
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