Some sub-prime lenders, including GMAC and Advantage, a division of Morgan Stanley, have been cutting the amount their customers owe in an attempt to help them remortgage to another lender.
That means the Eagles have a major advantage over division rivals like Dallas and Washington because the Eagles have a large amount of salary-cap room, and could sign key free agents.
The last two double dissolution elections, both in the 1980s, were called by a government seeking to go to the polls early to take advantage of division among its opponents.
Let's stay ahead of the pack.' " Parity may reign in the N.F.L., but the strength of the league appears to reside in the A.F.C., where races for home-field advantage and division titles feature the sport's best minds and most dynamic talents.
Professors Jason Shogren, Richard Horan and Erwin Bulte write that emerging rivals early modern humans traveling widely used a competitive advantage of division of labor and free trade that included acquiring raw materials and the era's latest hunting tools.
In the past, Iraq has taken advantage of divisions within the international community to renege on its obligations and defy the Council's authority.
Taking advantage of divisions within the Saʿūd family, Midhat also sought to reassert Ottoman sovereignty over the Wahhābī dominions in the Najd region of central Arabia.
The McCain campaign has been trying to take advantage of divisions in the Democratic Party and define Mr. Obama, who is still largely unknown to many voters, before he can lock up the nomination, when most of Mr. McCain's advisers expect him to get a significant bounce in the polls.
The British intended that this policy would facilitate assimilation of the French, but the French, led by such astute reform leaders as Louis Hippolyte LaFontaine, took advantage of divisions among the English-speaking legislators by allying themselves with the reformers from Canada West to push for responsible government and to make themselves indispensable for governmental stability.
Unlike Tunisia and Egypt, where the opposition was relatively united and was able to take advantage of divisions within the ruling circles, the elites in Syria have been united against a divided opposition.
