In Nairobi's slums, which are often divided along tribal lines, rival groups have been fighting each other with machetes and sticks as police use tear gas and bullets to keep them from pouring into the city center.
That longevity owes much to the way that Mr Bashir has cleverly split the differences in his often-divided government.
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The new pontiff has walked a fine line politically in a country that has often been sharply divided between hard left and hard right.
Lanier enrolled in the local high school, which was racially divided and often violent.
The King is viewed by most Thais as a symbol of stability and a unifying force in what has often been a politically divided country.
The Rehnquist court is often described as sharply divided, with a narrow conservative majority, largely because of a series of 5-4 votes on federalism, affirmative action, religion and abortion.
Yet in recent years, for many reasons, American politics has become more strident and divided, and often along personal rather than ideological lines.
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The Republican Party is divided between the ideological, often divisive politicians in Congress and the more practical, consensus-seeking governors in state capitols.
The arbitrage has to do with the fact that the earnings yield on equities (earnings divided by price) is often more than the aftertax cost of money (which is, roughly, two-thirds of whatever your long-term interest rate is).
Opinion is even divided among donor families, reflecting the often intensely personal nature of views around organ donation for transplant.
As Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta argued in a paper, political instability and a divided parliament - with the ruling coalition often a minority in the upper house - contributed to the slowing down of output.
In countries where political power is divided and constrained like America, it is often thought that such outcomes are determined by other factors such as market forces.
While there clearly is pro-reform, anti-establishment sentiment in the electorate (and in New Hampshire, where Independent voters can participate in the primary and are often inclined to support insurgents), it is now divided among two candidates.
By an odd symmetry, an unexpected change of one vote has now put the Democrats in charge of Senate business, so giving America something closer to the divided government that in 2000, as so often, it seems to have wanted.
Often they're even more influential because the Italians are characteristically divided over whom to support.
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