Sentence examples for act of dividing from inspiring English sources

There are also numerous tiny algae, some of which have been caught in the act of dividing in two.

Those subsequently applied divisions, which seem so distant from the actions performed within the story, ironize the very act of dividing up time even while providing a model for doing so.

Kant identifies the inadmissible condition as the implicit taking of matter as a thing-in-itself, which in turn leads to the mistake of taking the division of matter into parts to subsist independently of the act of dividing.

It was an act of misdirection worthy of a cheap stage magician, shifting responsibility for economic failure onto those who were barely out of primary school when it happened, a shameless act of divide and rule.

And his solution is virtually identical to the one produced by William Forster for the great Education Act of 1870: dividing the country into 2,500 school districts, giving each of them a school board directly elected by ratepayers, letting that board fill gaps in provision, charging fees as it deemed fit, balancing books and handing out scholarships.

A: The Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971 divided "controlled drugs" into three levels of seriousness.

The British Telecommunications Act of 1981 divided the post office into two corporations, one for postal and banking operations and the other for telecommunications.

The proposed act of union divided the three Rigsraads, but according to modern scholarly opinion the document embodying the terms of the union never got beyond the stage of an unratified draft.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 divided original jurisdiction for the trial of federal crimes between the district courts and the circuit courts.

One of the first statutes passed by the First Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1789, divided original jurisdiction for the trial of federal crimes between the district courts and the circuit courts.

To accommodate English-speaking Loyalists in Quebec, the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the province into French-speaking Lower Canada (later Quebec) and English-speaking Upper Canada (later Ontario), granting each its own elected legislative assembly.