Sentence examples for longstanding divisions from inspiring English sources

This year's standoff has deepened longstanding divisions in the country.

"There are longstanding divisions between rural agriculture and urban areas, between northern and southern California.

But there, too, longstanding divisions — most shaped by economics — cut against a science-driven solution.

Longstanding divisions along ethnic, sectarian and political lines also mitigate against a revolution, he believes.

The deals narrowed the longstanding divisions between banks and brokerage firms and widened the gap between the global giants of finance and their regional competitors.

Supporters of the referendum, however, said the bid for official status for Russian was not the cause of fissures in Latvia but an outgrowth of longstanding divisions and historically unequal treatment for the country's large minority of native Russian speakers.

What the Lima agreement does do, however, is end the longstanding division of the world into only two kinds of countries, developed and developing.

The meeting, formally known as the 18th Conference of the Parties, or COP 18, was always seen as a transition from the longstanding division of nations into industrialized perpetrators and developing-world victims of dangerous climate change.

Under the longstanding division of political power in Lebanon, the president is a Maronite, the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of Parliament is a Shiite Muslim.

Over the years, a network based on a longstanding division of labor and stabilized by mutual recommendation has emerged.

The resolution, which was drafted by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan, has exposed the longstanding division within the Security Council.