Sentence examples for divides rival from inspiring English sources

Such is life these days on the border, a squiggly, 1,800-mile line that divides rival cousins, India and Pakistan.

BAGHDAD — The move to bar a prominent Sunni Muslim politician from Iraq's parliamentary elections in March stirred anger among his followers on Friday and divided rival lawmakers.

"Bill Duvall," as Markoff puts it, "would become the first to make the leap from research to replace humans with computers to using computers to augment the human intellect, and one of the first to stand on both sides of an invisible line that even today divides two rival, insular engineering communities".

Those elections left the 200-seat Parliament evenly divided between rival coalitions.

A split in the EU could cause Europe once again to divide into rival power blocks.

The city became divided by rival factions and familiar faces were cast into different roles.

The next year saw the new republic increasingly divided between rival factions.

Libya, since then, has become a failing state, divided between rival governments and militias: Isis are in control of Sirte.

The Zanu-PF party has been divided between rival factions jostling to succeed Mugabe, who has avoided naming a successor.

Villages are divided into rival clans, and the society is organized into castes, with smiths and butchers ordinarily kept at a distance, and a serf (earlier slave) class.

The arid region remained politically divided among rival peoples until the mid-18th century, when it became the centre of the Wahhābī, a fundamentalist Islamic movement.