"They have bifurcated into 'good' and 'best', without a 'better' option," says Julia Fowler at Editd, a consultancy firm.
In such circumstances, government would risk being bifurcated.
"It's a different world," says Joel Pollock, Stumptown's head roaster and one of the judges in Viçosa.As a result, the coffee trade has bifurcated in the past decade into commodity coffee, sold in large quantities at a low price, and specialty coffee, where quality rules.
Until the end of the 18th century, bifurcated European garments took forms such as breeches, knickerbockers, and pantaloons.
Cygnus A was once thought to be two galaxies of comparable size in collision, but more recent ideas suggest that it is a giant elliptical whose body is bifurcated by a dust lane from a spiral galaxy that it recently swallowed.
The state's political character has bifurcated largely along geographic lines, with northern Florida voting overwhelmingly for Republican candidates and southern Florida tending to vote for Democrats, particularly in the populous Broward Fortt Lauderdale, Dadee (Miami), and Palm Beach counties.
The Central Committee meeting, which was attended by more than 300 senior party members, committed the state to a policy of loosening the restrictive household-registration system that bifurcated Chinese society in terms of access to resources between those born in the country and those born in the city.
Following the split in the Syriac Church in the 5th century into Nestorian (East Syrian) and Jacobite (West Syrian) traditions, the textual history of the Peshitta became bifurcated.
And so, what happens in Wuzhen could have a significant influence on China's strategy for tourism, and its retention of historically important sections of towns and cities. Wuzhen, two hours by bus or train from Shanghai, has been bifurcated and demarcated into the more genuinely historic East Scenic Zone, and the overtly touristic West Zone.
These are not bifurcated aims.
Bifurcated comparativism implies that goods do not offset evils, but might eliminate them: that is, the goods E brings do not reduce the harmfulness of E unless they cause us to have less pain or less of some other evil.
