Nonetheless, political divisions within Europe are reminiscent of those that prevailed at the time of the Iraq war.

Divisions in the kingdom are sharper than ever, and the King s death might deepen them further.

But now those divides are wider.

Many of those divisions and frictions are manifested in religious tones.

Moreover, he benefited from the divisions in the Gaullist party.

And the individual has 2 billion of these nano size split ends.

Those divisions are now history, and American reservations about a European security pillar cannot trump America s pressing needs for allied support.

What we see are, first of all, a very active culture, a lot of divisions, and then very clear nuclei once the cells have separated.

Whatever ethnic and other divisions are at stake, the us versus them sentiment has played a large role in fomenting religious conflict in Nigeria.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening.

Political divisions are blocking forward movement on key issues.

It exacerbates the divisions between civilizations and between religions.

That is also the reason why we need non divisive reform.

These divisions will allow new forces to emerge in Iranian society.

Even among the Sunnis and Shias there are further divisions.

This attitude of loyalty, however, provoked more divisions in the church itself inside Russia, a number of faithful opposed Sergius, and abroad, the Russian metropolitans of America and western Europe severed their relations with Moscow.

Yet nowadays divisions between candidates for office are deeper than ever and are even sharper among party activists.

More than that, the divisions are reproduced at the local level.

This, according to Riemer, is supposed to bring a reduction in tensions and an increase in communications across the sectarian and religious divides in Lebanon.

Political leaders everywhere in the Balkans are adept at exploiting such divisions.

That, in turn, has put China at the center of Asia s political divides.

The political divisions are artificial. The cultural unity is natural.

Oman also hosts tennis tournaments in different age divisions each year.

In the middle of the twentieth century, Josef Stalin scornfully asked how many divisions the Pope had, but four decades later, the Papacy was still intact while Stalin s empire had collapsed.

Consider just a few of the divisions that have come up among NATO allies over the past decades.

The referendum marked a critical conjuncture of Bolivia s social, regional, and political divisions.

Both the US and Latin America are still coming to terms with those historic divisions.

These divisions, obscured by Saddam s totalitarianism, never went away.

But political divisions among the Council s permanent members make achieving this goal unlikely.

Due to their generally smaller size, many Italian divisions were reinforced by an Assault Group ( Gruppo di Assalto ) of two battalions of Blackshirts (MVSN).

As head of an organization of 192 member states, the Secretary General inevitably feels the powerful crosscurrents of global divisions.

Some EU members (Germany and Italy) are more dependent on the US than others (France), and thus more likely to support US strategic initiatives.

Establishing consistent liaison with the Sudan Liberation Movement Army has been hampered by divisions within the group.

King Alexander changed the name of the country to Yugoslavia and changed the internal divisions from the 33 oblasts to nine new banovinas.

The problem for the US is not the divisions in the Middle East that it must understand and navigate better, but rather the divisions within the US that have eroded domestic consensus on many foreign policy issues.

But, despite deep divisions among the rebels, the cost of Western indifference is probably higher than the risk of intervention.

In non democratic societies, they can lead to revolution and violent power struggles.

Divisions within the opposition movements are thus inevitable.

Internal political and territorial divisions led to the secession of Venezuela and Ecuador in 1830.

Divisions in some areas were too deep to be bridged, and some are serious.

What we see are, first of all, a very active culture, a lot of divisions, and then very clear nuclei once the cells have separated.

Furthermore, waves of Syrian refugees are threatening the sustainability of the Jordanian monarchy, already roiled by profound internal cleavages.

A decade ago, the world had a foretaste of what can happen when ethnic divisions are exploited for sinister political purposes.

South Korea has traditionally had one of the top basketball teams in Asia and one of the continent's strongest basketball divisions.

It was precisely to overcome those divisions that the European Union was established by stages, creating the longest period of peace on that continent.