A corporate reorganisation left a small division out in the cold without a leader or a reporting line to headquarters.
The religious struggles of the 17th century left a deep sectarian division in Ireland.
"I had just gotten to San Diego from Oklahoma City, and didn't know anyone," said Ms. Cummins, who not long before had left a job as a division commander in the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Mr. Adams left Berger, a division of Stilwell Financial, in May 1999.
Adding to the feeling of being in limbo, some staff have been left in a division with no name, as its head, director of strategy James Purnell, told them last week in an email: "This week has seen the launch of the new BBC Design & Engineering division, led by Matthew Postgate.
They don't really choose stocks, a job that is left to a division somewhere else; they sell, sell, sell, by building up their books of clients.
The Buccaneers leave a tougher division -- formerly the N.F.C. Central and now the N.F.C. North, which is composed of Minnesota, Green Bay, Detroit and Chicago -- for the softer N.F.C. South, consisting of the Bucs, Carolina, Atlanta and New Orleans.
In Germany itself, 40 years of division left a legacy of ruptured cultural and social ties that are even more difficult to repair than the economic gap.
Misguided or not, the American invasion of Iraq removed a poisonous dictator, but left a state with historical divisions — a battleground of ethnic hostilities.
The copying enzyme works in such a way that one of the two strands of the double helix is left a little shorter after each division.
