Democracy is only as strong as the discourse and decision-making of its citizens, yet the United States and other countries around the world have slipped into an era of escalating division and distrust.
These cells show elevated mutation rates, decreased fitness and escalating division problems, leading to permanent cell-cycle arrest and finally to cell death (Alabrudzinska, Skoneczny and Skoneczna 2011).
The referendum, only the second to take place in more than 40 years, comes amid escalating signs of social division and fears of civil strife.
Partisan divisions in Washington, escalating threats from North Korea and historic natural disasters left many Americans hoping they'll be dealt a better hand in the coming year.
The escalating political crisis underscores the divisions among Iraq's three main factions — Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds — that were largely papered over while the American military maintained a presence here.
The disclosure escalated at tax division investigation that had already been opened into HSBC.
In Liu et al. [27], the hiding rate is escalated by the division of image from (256 times 256),(16 times 16), (8 times 8), (2 times 2,) but PSNR persistently decreased from the size of (256 times 256) to (2 times 2) blocks division.
The Miller Brewing division of SABMiller in Milwaukee is escalating the brawl against its principal rival, the Anheuser-Busch division of the Anheuser-Busch Companies, with commercials that reintroduce taste test claims to the beer wars.
"The costs of simply maintaining the current level of support for our Division I intercollegiate athletic program are escalating," Eugene Doris, the Fairfield athletic director, said.
With tensions between the United States and Pakistan escalating since the raid, American officials on Monday sought to tamp down the divisions and pointed to some encouraging developments.
The divisions are even deeper on a critical new element of U.S. strategy--how to cut off Iraq's escalating oil smuggling through Iran, Syria, Turkey and Jordan.
