In eighteen fifty, the United States faced the threat of a split between northern and southern states.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

With the votes split this way, no single party would win a majority of seats in parliament.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

It's all we have to go on,at the moment." Sri Lanka's military says it is on the verge of totally defeating the LTTE, which has waged a violent campaign for decades to split the island and create an independent Tamil homeland in the north.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11