Sentence examples for potential to split from inspiring English sources

The Nader campaign has been helped by rightwingers well aware of its potential to split the progressive vote.

The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, put up an antiwar South Asian candidate named Nasser Butt, who had the potential to split the Labour vote in the constituency.

"It will definitely have some sort of impact on the race," Jonathan Vaughters, the director of the Garmin-Chipotle team, said of the final hill, which has the potential to split the field of racers to devastating effect.

Peter Reith, a minister in the Howard government, said the issue of same-sex marriage has the potential to split both major political parties despite there being a strong sense in the community that it's time for change.

"When you are making painful decisions with the potential to split the people of Israel," he said, referring to the withdrawal from the Golan, "you cannot do it with a majority of one vote".

If they can reproduce sexually with other hybrids, they have the potential to split off as new species.

Shares in News Corporation rose more than 6 percent in morning trading on Tuesday, on reports of a potential plan to split the media empire in two.

Meanwhile, more players means more potential winners to split the pot (each game has a prize of at least $1000, but that's split amongst all winners).

By allowing a potential suicide bomber to split a convoy, our driver took a calculated risk.

A high electrical potential is required to split pure water directly, so an electrolyte is added to reduce the resistance in the system.

Analysis of microarray data allowed us to split potential proneural targets into three groups and 2(c)): (i) genes regulated by both Mash1 and Ngn2; (ii) genes regulated by Mash1 only; and (iii) genes regulated by Ngn2 only.