The ascendant methods by which they receive political information — cable television, the Internet, Twitter — reinforce divisions.
He complains about a backlash, among Turks, to resurgent German national pride; he says the several Turkish satellite television stations now available here reinforce divisions, and help keep Turks Turkish.
Sham debates tend to reinforce divisions, while honest debate truly engages the participants, gives them a stake in the outcome and opens avenues for compromise that hadn't been considered before.
But with citizenship often a cipher for ethnicity, the move has been interpreted as an attempt to reinforce divisions for political advantage: those with the most to gain from a swath of fresh voters on the electoral roll are the ethnic parties that dominate the assembly.
The reinforced division was intended to attack again but on 19 June a storm descended upon the English Channel, which delayed the landing of supplies and further British attacks were postponed.
In the end these sad scenarios seriously reinforce class division and expand income inequality.
Parties and coalitions have stuck to strict ethnic lines, reinforcing divisions between Serb, Croat and Muslim.
But Artsmark, which recognises the achievements of schools in offering pupils arts opportunities, is simply a tool for reinforcing divisions.
In practice the changes often simply reinforced divisions between a privileged elite — modern, educated, in tune with the West — and a struggling underclass, something that was not a small factor in the rise of fundamentalist violence.
"How difficult will it be with 26 nations?" But Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, argued that abandoning consensus rule for majority rule would "send members scurrying for votes in support of their decisions, merely delaying action and reinforcing divisions among allies".
