Sentence examples for regional splits from inspiring English sources

The regional splits have become more evident in the past decade.

Hockey has the Stanley Cup, but the old regional splits don't mean much in the international age.

The United Nations agency has demanded that women be allowed to conduct household surveys to determine needs; the Kabul-area Taliban leaders, reflecting regional splits between hard-liners and more moderate elements in the movement, say they will not permit women to do that work.

The prime minister, in turn, is furious that the Kurdish authorities have insisted on pursuing an oil exploration deal with Exxon Mobil, the American energy giant, which he regards as a breach of national sovereignty since the revenues would flow directly into Kurdish coffers.Perhaps surprisingly, national and regional splits may work to strengthen Mr Maliki's position.

In the 2010 election Conservatives won 31% of the vote in the north and 47% in the south; Labour won 17% of the vote in the south but 38% in the north.Combining one of the most centralised systems of government with one of the starkest regional splits in party support makes England an oddity.

The regions in which these incidents occurred dominate the regional split of fatalities; when these disasters are excluded from analyses, Indonesia, Melanesia, the Philippines and SE China, the West Indies, and Mexico and Central America have seen the greatest human loss from volcanism.

So far, there are no signs of a regional split.

It's not just a regional split on migration though but a social one too.

But the debate threw into a spotlight the regional split on energy development and the environment.

To overcome a regional split among conservatives, the Reform Party, based in the West, is trying to reinvent itself as a national party, the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance.

A right-wing party without the baggage of a Thatcherite past may complicate things further for northern Tories.And in various practical ways the regional split is self-reinforcing.