The word "cleaved" is a valid English word and is used in many contexts.
It can mean several different things, but typically serves as a verb meaning "to split or divide something into two or more pieces." For example: The butcher cleaved the slab of meat in half.
Above all, he cleaved to a traditional, Soviet-era notion of defence policy-making.
Only Dr't Hooft, a fellow countryman of Dr Veltman, has cleaved to his native land.
At the time of the march Democrats had a large and durable majority in the House of Representatives, a coalition between northern and urban liberals and southern segregationists (white southerners cleaved to the Democrats after losing the civil war to Abraham Lincoln, a Republican).
And Nelson Mandela, the heroes' hero, also cleaved eventually to the path of righteousness, even while admitting he had not done enough to combat AIDS during his own presidency of South Africa.Mr Gates and Mr Mandela are easy to admire.
The bulldogs, mastiffs and German shepherds also cleaved together.How much this analysis will help Dr Ostrander's medical work remains to be seen.
The libertarian, Wall Street, and foreign-policy realist elements of the Republican coalition cleaved away from each other and even more from the religious right, in much the same way that the civil-rights movement, cold-war liberals, and white working-class Democrats had splintered in the late 1960s.
Yet as the crisis has gone on, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have cleaved to each other to the point where many have come to resent the diktats of "Merkozy".
Banks that have resisted seeking new capital are under scrutiny, and none more so than Barclays and Deutsche Bank.The questions are particularly pointed in Europe, where regulators have cleaved to the Tier 1 capital ratio, a measure of capital based on the riskiness of bank assets.
As Mr Baykal listed evidence of his challenger's alleged misdeeds, Mr Sarigul cleaved his way to the lectern to respond, punching a rival mayor on the way.
Such a shell observed as a ring, or halo, if the specimen is cleaved along a plane passing through the sphere is believed to represent a region in which the crystal structure has been modified by the absorption of the energy of alpha particles emitted by the radioactive elements.
