A shiny chain-link fence slices across the hill, bisecting the long-forgotten sheikh's vault from end to end, like a magician's sword-trick.On one side, tense, combat-ready Israeli soldiers steady gun-barrels through the wire.
Bisecting it is an open drain, which gushes torrentially, flushing away the detritus of the previous day.From the stink of this, it includes a lot of human excrement which tiny naked children, squatting with their backsides jutting over the torrent, are busy adding to.
Worse, the latest planned settlement, in a zone known as E-1, threatens to box Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem, which they hope to make their capital, into a sealed-off enclave, impeding connections to the rest of the fledgling state of Palestine and bisecting the northern and southern halves.
A fracture line, bisecting the sea from northeast to southwest, is evidenced by the coral atolls surrounding Mapun (Cagayan Sulu) island, the Tubbataha Reefs, and the volcanic Mapun island group itself.
Petersburg on the west coast, bisecting the state from Tampa St.
The figure illustrates this geometric series graphically by repeatedly bisecting a unit square.
Bisecting the state is the Missouri River, flowing from Kansas City in the west, through the state's capital, Jefferson City, in the centre, to just above St . Louisin the east, where it joins the Mississippi.
Techniques, such as bisecting the angles of known constructions, exist for constructing regular n-gons for many values, but none is known for the general case.
Bisecting the Southern Highlands is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a low-lying, narrow constriction of land that reaches an elevation of less than 900 feet (275 metres).
The Rogue River, bisecting the area, provides the major drainage.
It was a strip of land 10 miles (16 km) wide along the Panama Canal, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and bisecting the Isthmus of Panama.
