Sentence examples for calling for the partition of from inspiring English sources

A Senate resolution calling for the partition of Iraq has infuriated the Iraqi leadership.

On this day in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (not implemented) calling for the partition of Palestine into two separate states an Arab and a Jewish one that would retain an economic union.

That war would most probably not have taken place had the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs and of the Arab states accepted the 1947 UN Resolution calling for the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.

He called for the partition of Bosnia into Muslim, Serbian and Croatian units.

A decade ago, as a senator, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for the partition of Iraq, an idea that is likely to resurface if Iraq continues on the path it is taking.

From there we could move to the Palestinian rejection in 1947 of UN resolution 181 which called for the partition of historical Palestine, the many decades of Palestinian rejection of the state of Israel, through the murder of Israeli athletes during the Olympic games in 1972 to the quotations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the constitution of Hamas.

Has Mr. Brooks forgotten that during his presidential run, Mr. Biden called for the partitioning of Iraq?

Political analysts and even some of his rivals have recently praised Mr. Biden's stand on the Iraq war -- calling for a partition of the country -- as being detailed and thoughtful; the Bush administration status report on Iraq next month may give him an additional spotlight.

What Iraq needs now is politicians who can ease tensions to solve the crisis but without calling for partition of the country simply because relations between two political parties have deteriorated.

When the United Nations called in 1947 for the partition of Mandate Palestine and the establishment of Jewish and Palestinian states, the proposed Palestinian state occupied about 42 percent of the territory.

Biden and Gelb did not, in fact, call for the partitioning of Iraq; they called for a power-sharing arrangement that might accommodate the intensifying centrifugal force of ethnic and religious divisions.