But even this tactic carries risks: it could well be interpreted by Mr Milosevic as endorsement for a new partition of Kosovo between Serbs and Albanians, an idea his associates have floated.
Mr. Ota had indicated that one of the reasons that he had encouraged a partneship was because of concerns that the children might try to exercise a right of partition that existed unde Hawaii law.
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At least in prison, she could sit with him at a table for a few hours instead of having to settle for a few minutes of conversation behind a thick glass partition at the county jail, she said.
He is also pushing for Israel to agree to a de facto partition of Jerusalem.
Another Forbes colleague tells of sitting across a partition from a reporter who, on top of her full-time job, ran a shelter for stray cats.
The only alternative policy would be one of permanent partition and garrisoning of a defeated Germany, for which the democracies have neither the strength nor the moral mandate.
Ashen Gill and her two sons were left with just three cob walls and half of a partition following a large fire at their home which was tackled by about 100 firefighters.
The prospect of sitting at a desk (probably in front of a computer), with only a thin partition separating you from a sea colleagues is sometimes too much to bear.
After a couple of months, the backup partition filled up, and the laptop complained every time backup attempted to run.
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But he personally saw partition as a failure and resigned as leader of the Ulster Unionists in 1921.
If partition was a pragmatic response to the reality of the time, a prior question is: by what right did the 600, 000 or so Jews of mandatory Palestine come to be there in the first place?
While making a radio series on the trauma of the partition of British India, and the resulting violence amid which India and Pakistan gained independence, Andrew visited an ashram, a place of retreat, and by chance met a group of women widowed at that time, who have been living in institutions ever since.
It is a throwback to the 1947 partition plan, which decades of hostility and war have swept off the negotiating table.
In a separate declaration on the future status of Kosovo, the EU has left the door open for a conditional independence of the disputed territory, by ruling out any partition or union of Kosovo with another country, as well as any solution resulting from the use of force.
Since partition tolerance is a fundamental requirement for distributed applications, it becomes a question of what to sacrifice: consistency or availability.
Yet as Channel 10 reported on Sunday night, just a few weeks ago, Livni told her supporters that she is negotiating the partition of the city.
The idea of partition is intolerable to the UN administration in Kosovo, committed to a single multi-ethnic state.
The simplest consist of a single room with a sink in the corner and a toilet behind a partition.
The MQM is based in Sindh province, with a membership mostly comprising the descendants of Urdu-speaking migrants to Pakistan at the time of the partition of British India in 1947.
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Still, anyone who's been within 100 meters of a screaming child will know that their cries won't be stifled by a few partition curtains.
Its rival MQM, which represents the descendants of Muslims who fled today's India after partition in 1947, has long kept a political stranglehold on the city, where this ethnic group outnumbers all others.
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