It was a ripple effect that drove a wedge between us and we ended up divorcing.
Trade barriers, transport costs and differences in taxes drive a wedge between prices in different countries.
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The dispute has driven a wedge between urban and rural Australia and between church and state.
Yet, you could try to drive a wedge between the natural rate and the real growth rate.
Life, as the book is called, is hardly going to drive a wedge between The Glimmer Twins.
Officials sense an opportunity to drive more of a wedge between hardcore extremists and those who are wavering.
Another official said driving a wedge between the two countries was "certainly a partial motivation" of the terrorists.
Nonpartisan strategists might argue that this approach would drive a wedge between reasonable Republicans and the House radicals.
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Indonesia's justice minister, Muladi, said the bombing was a deliberate attempt to drive a wedge between religious groups.
Trade bans of various types become an additional wedge between buyer and foreign seller interfering with the arbitrage process.
The events have raised concern that Syria's sectarian conflict could drive a wedge between Turkey's Sunni majority and the country's Shiite sects.
Better still would be to drive a wedge between Europe and America.
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And now a new proposal, from a broad group of Palestinian intellectuals, politicians and business people, could drive a wedge between the two.
"Government policy is designed specifically to drive a wedge between global energy prices and energy bills, now and in the future, " said Mr Davy.
China's statement on Thursday underscored the difficulty the West faces in creating a wedge between Iran and one of the largest buyers of Iranian crude.
Avoiding social-security charges, which often drive a chunky wedge between take-home pay and employers' wage bills, can both cut labour costs and thicken wage packets.
This story is important because it drives a wedge between Rubio and the voters he is supposed to be able to deliver to the Republican Party.
This provincial rule has not changed and as Laos develops it pushes a large financial wedge between the provincial governments and the central party in Vientiane.
Price controls create shortages, and they also drive a wedge between the price of a good or service and what people are willing to pay or accept.
By creating a tax wedge between the bid and ask price of financial assets, the APT tax provides incentives to lengthen the average holding period of financial instruments.
Its part-time Scottish secretary appears unable to counter Alex Salmond, the wily nationalist leader of the Scottish government, who aims to drive a wedge between Westminster and Holyrood.
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This latter issue has long been a source of divisive debate in Belgium and one that has driven a further wedge between the country's two distinct linguistic communities.
Furthermore, the North has so far failed to drive too big a wedge between the countries that share an interest in preventing it becoming a full-fledged nuclear power.
Mr. Maliki, apparently attempting to drive a wedge between the harder- and softer-line ministers, has vowed to fire most of those who don't attend meetings in the coming days.
The wedge between an employer's cost of labour and a worker's net pay is a relatively modest 79% in America and 47% in Switzerland, compared with 200% in Italy.
But some features of the new iterations of the Xbox and PlayStation -- be they announced or just rumored -- are driving a wedge between the gaming giants and some of their fans.
The difficulty is that the security situation, which has worsened in the north (though it is nothing like as bad as the south), is driving a wedge between the military and civil sides.
More importantly, although the country's structural policies, and in particular its cosy brand of capitalism, did indeed drive a wedge between the two men, the differences appear to be largely ones of public relations.
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The key issue is that the new trade has created a wedge between the government-controlled, onshore exchange rate (CNY) and the offshore currency as it trades in Hong Kong, which is known as CNH.
The smartphone market is ripe for disruption Palm is dead, Symbian is sunsetting, RIM is faltering, and every player in the ecosystem (other than Google and Apple) want a third player to wedge between Google and Apple.
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