Sentence examples for membership divided from inspiring English sources

NATO, struggling to overcome a fractious membership divided over the Iraq War and the concurrent war in Afghanistan, chose de Hoop Scheffer, who was regarded by his peers as a pragmatist rather than an ideologue, to serve as its 11th secretary-general.

"But this time, the membership is divided, and so we didn't get involved.

The NBA membership was divided into two conferences, each with three divisions.

The council has not taken a position on the five-day proposal because, Mr. Sackler said, its membership is divided.

The society's membership is divided equally between high-tech private companies and such public-sector organizations as universities and state and local governments.

To examine the growing number of questions about conflicts of interest, Levitt created a new board, whose membership was divided between independent business leaders and people from the accounting industry.

The question of whether the former communist country would move toward EU membership had divided the Ukrainian people and caused great anxiety in Moscow, which feared its former satellite's entry into the Western club.

A further dominating element of House organization is the committee system, under which the membership is divided into specialized groups for purposes such as holding hearings, preparing bills for the consideration of the entire House, and regulating House procedure.

With AARP's membership evenly divided politically, the leadership has felt the need to cling to the middle so as not to jeopardize either the $141 million it gets from dues or the $161 million in royalties from the sale of goods and services like insurance and prescription drugs that carry the AARP imprimatur.

At the time of writing, ZEP's webpage presents organizational membership as divided into Government (2), NGOs (3), Companies (24), and Academia & Research (7).

But four large nonindustrial unions representing more than one-third of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s membership said they were not ready to endorse Mr. Gephardt or anybody else because their membership was too divided and the 10-candidate field too fluid.