In common with the Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast City Council uses the D'Hondt system to decide how posts are divided out.
The drop-out rates have also divided lecturers and university chiefs, with the Association of University Teachers describing the highest drop-out rates as "astronomical" and a waste of public funds.
The operation itself was divided into steadily escalating phases, mapped out in advance.
His own, internally divided, Peronist party supports him mainly out of fear that, were he to fall, it might collapse with him.
We then divided box office by budget to find out what percentage of the budget each film has earned at the box office.
FORBES: And The Forbes Oscar Goes To...'Silver Linings Playbook'
But Britain is entering a recession with its main protagonists divided in important ways about how to get out of it.
Labour politicians were divided on whether to stay in or get out - so Harold Wilson offered renegotiation followed by a referendum.
The new boss has his work cut out: IG Metall remains deeply divided and its power is waning, with membership continuing to fall.
The school is being divided, and Blake is about to find out what Alvarado and the baseball team mean to a proud community.
FORBES: Parents Protest Hazing-Related Suspension of Longtime L.A. High School Baseball Coach
However, with opinions and allegiances as divided as ever, and with guns still out in the streets of Beirut, real peace in Lebanon is still very difficult to imagine.
It should be noted that if a winning lottery ticket is shared by more than one person Form 5754 needs to be filled out to show how the winnings are divided.
He could yet eke out a victory, if the field remains divided enough.
As a columnist in Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, pointed out this week, the Israelis may be evenly divided over the peace process but they are not divided over Israel's overriding need to maintain its alliance with America.
Polls show that though the public is willing to wait the process out, the virtue of patience would seem to be evenly divided.
It was agreed that the Royal Brothers Building would be kept out of the common pool of assets that was to be divided as it could be a potential deal breaker.
Huge debts forced the car firm to lay off 10, 000 workers, and the group was eventually bailed out in a government-brokered deal in which it was divided into several parts, each run by a different son of its founder, the late Chung Ju-yung, who was forced to resign.
Margaret Thatcher's government rode out its hard early years largely because the opposition was weak and divided.
In other countries, value-added taxes are taken out of gross box-office receipts, before the money is divided between studios and theaters.
The force is divided into three main brigades in eastern, central and western Libya and carries out law and order and combat tasks.
But the Democrats are loudly insisting that, in so neatly divided a Senate, committee chairmanships and other spoils of power should be shared out evenly.
So Grotzinger cropped out a hundred and fifty square miles around the landing area and divided it into quadrangles of about a mile on a side.
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes will map out the density of charged particles across the belts, which are divided into two: an inner belt, and an outer.
The Clinton administration is pulling out all the stops in an effort to convince a skeptical Congress and a divided American public that sending troops to Bosnia to help maintain peace is a good idea.
CNN: White House and Congress set to battle over budget and Bosnia
But there are about 60 houses between 12 and 13 feet wide, the logical result of a grid of streets laid out in 1811 with standard lots that were 25 feet wide and could be divided.
WSJ: Side by Side Homes on Upper East Side Go on Market Together for $11.95 Million
What makes Mr Thaksin's case so awkward, however, is that the drafters of the 1997 constitution also set out to fix the other chronic flaw in Thailand's political system: divided and ineffective governments with hopelessly short lives.
The U.S. administration is divided on North Korea, not only because its partners in East Asia have all but ruled out the first option, but because it is not sure what Pyongyang wants.
The index is also 12 percent higher since bottoming out in November after the election, when investors sold stocks on concern that a divided government wouldn't be able to come up with a budget compromise.
With the precise date of a referendum still to be set, but the SNP ruling out votes for Scots living abroad, the Scottish American community appears to be as divided about the merits of full independence as Scots themselves.
To confirm that this is so, Ms Welch stripped the eggs out of several females (not as horrible a process as it sounds), divided each batch of eggs into two, and inseminated half with sperm from a long-calling male and half with sperm from a short-calling male.
应用推荐