• You know, we don't want the terrorists to succeed in dividing us, in splitting us.

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  • For its part, cable news eventually morphed into bloviating talking heads that succeeded in dividing our self-selecting viewing nation.

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  • By standing for a third, constitutionally dubious, term after a decade in power, and then staging a deeply flawed election, Alberto Fujimori succeeded only in dividing his country and antagonising the outside world, notably the United States.

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  • In terms of dividing up responsibilities, Winer, who began managing the fund in 1998, focused on U.S. real estate firms, which now constitute 27% of the portfolio.

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  • In 1977 Gill began dividing his time between the stores in Indonesia and the buying office in Singapore as his father gave his sons more responsibility in day-to-day operations.

    FORBES: BY JENNIFER SCHULTZ WELLS

  • On the other hand, it's his third term, and most governments would consider that pretty good, and his critics in the Iraq War, which is a great dividing issue in Europe for the last three or four years, Chancellor Schroeder and President Chirac of France, dare I say it, are in much bigger trouble themselves.

    NPR: Britons React to Bush-Blair Summit

  • The one place, apart from Pristina, where Serbs have remained in significant numbers is the mining town of Mitrovica, part of the French sector in the north, where the Ibar river has become the dividing line in an ugly stand-off.

    ECONOMIST: Who controls Kosovo?

  • They married in 1935, dividing their time among a Paris town house, a 14-room apartment on Sutton Place and an artists' studio (later home) in the Berkshires--the first International-style structure built in New England.

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  • But compared with the Republicans, where the debate has been less bilious and the front-runner, George W. Bush, should have no trouble uniting everyone should he be nominated, the Democrats are in danger of dividing again: not over ideology, this time, but tactics.

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  • France's brutal methods against those fighting for independence in Algeria ended up dividing French domestic opinion and strengthening its enemies.

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  • Democratic caucus-goers express their preference through a show of hands, a sign-in sheet or by dividing themselves into groups according to candidate.

    BBC: Caucus

  • They measured height, weight and body mass index - calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.

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  • Gavin Casey, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, favours dividing shares in proportion to market capitalisation, a measure on which London dominates.

    ECONOMIST: Going nowhere?

  • The ridge of the South Downs I was walking had become a frontier in the landscape, dividing the world into realms of weather, light and colour.

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  • However, he could succeed in delivering a strong dividing line between the Conservatives and their current coalition partners - and with the official opposition.

    BBC: EU referendum: PM's problem solved or delayed?

  • Reality thus tragically demonstrates that the essential dividing line in Syria is not between peacetime and wartime but between the law of war and no law at all.

    CNN: Syria must be held to the law of war

  • And EU chiefs have been worried too by a U.S. State Department official who began talking of the advantages of "disaggregating" the EU. Or, in other words, dividing and ruling.

    CNN: Analysis: Battles ahead over U.N. role

  • Merck is dividing itself in two.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But I also see us having to do more and this is really the dividing line in education because I see education as about merit and about ability and about talent, but not, and for everyone having that chance and not exclusively about one elite getting better opportunities than they other.

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  • If voluntary euthanasia at the end of life becomes more widely accepted, it is likely that society's disapproval of suicide in general will come under greater scrutiny, if only because the dividing line between suicide in the case of the terminally ill and other kinds of suicide will become more blurred.

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  • Her first big idea: she proposed measuring the time each developer spent in front of his or her computer, and dividing it by the revenue brought in by the products that person created.

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  • They even sounded very much the same in talking about an immigration bill that is dividing the country and was being hotly debated in the Senate on Monday afternoon.

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  • The archbishop spoke of the "brave and loving people on both sides of the dividing wall" in Bethlehem.

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  • Body Mass Index is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by the square of your height in metres.

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  • Dividing the change in EVA by the prior period sales allows investors to compare companies of different sizes on a level playing field.

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  • Rather, bosses are calculating it on the basis of the total number of hours worked in the year, then dividing that figure by 52.

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  • The prime minister argued that the "new dividing line" in British politics separated the Labour party, which is "defending the bureaucracy of the NHS", and the coalition, which sought to focus on treatments.

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  • She even wonders whether the orgy of admiration could do more harm than good, dividing disabled people in the public mind between "those wonderful athletes", and those who have fallen short of the paralympian ideal.

    BBC: Disabled people divided over Paralympics effect

  • Darwin showed in detail how life changes over the course of time by the process of natural selection, but failed to explain how those changes can take different courses, dividing a species in two and thus multiplying the number of species.

    ECONOMIST: Evolution

  • To add to New York's island woes, on April 1st a Supreme Court arbitrator recommended that a 170-year dispute with New Jersey over control of Ellis Island, the immigrant gateway that New York has long thought of as its own, should be settled by dividing the island in two with New Jersey getting most of the land.

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