With a base in the former U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran, the force has between ten thousand and twenty thousand members, divided between combatants and those who train and oversee foreign assets.
The 9/11 Commission, run by Tom Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, and Lee Hamilton, the former top House Democrat on both the intelligence and foreign-affairs committees, was governed by consensus and a strict goal of producing a report that its members, divided between the two parties, could endorse unanimously.
Currently there are four instead of the usual five members, divided 2-2 between Democrats and Republicans.
Beck's album sold nowhere near the numbers of the Beyonce, Smith and Pharrell albums, but some industry observers thought he could slip through to win if the pop-R&B vote was split between Beyonce and Williams and the youthful indie singer-songwriter-minded academy members divided their votes between Smith and Sheeran.
European officials immediately raised the question of who would accept the peace prize on behalf of the bloc's often bickering members, divided by tensions between its more affluent north and its struggling south.
But Thai politics has always been more about personalities and power blocs than about policy, and Mr. Thaksin's two-year-old party is essentially a one-man show, its leading members deeply divided between young idealists and influential members of the old guard.
One Direction were seen leaving a festival in May on chartered planes – two separate planes, members dividing between.
Its members are divided between Russo-sceptics, partinularly in the Baltic states and Sweden, and Russophiles including Cyprus, Italy and Hungary.
He promised a "dramatic overhaul" of the Port Authority, whose board members are divided between appointees of the governors of New York and New Jersey.
The panel's members, evenly divided between the two parties, spent most of September in a standoff.
The committee, which is made up of six senators and six House members, evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, has until the end of November to make its deficit-reduction suggestions to Congress; if it can't come up with anything, or the two chambers do not vote to approve its suggestions, large cuts are set to hit nearly every area of government.
