Sentence examples for serve to split from inspiring English sources

He then worried aloud that what seemed to be the election's illegitimacy might serve to split Ukraine into a north and west supporting Mr. Yushchenko, and a region in the east supporting the prime minister.

Imposition of unilateral tariffs by the Administration would only serve to split the United States from its allies, hinder joint action to effectively address shared challenges, and ensure that foreign companies take the place of markets that American companies, farmers and ranchers must vacate when China retaliates against U.S. tariffs.

In the Elsewhere Society, he explains, "guilt is often the moral ax that serves to split our selfhood into intravidualistic fragments".

A chisel, placed in position against the edge of the block, is lightly tapped with a mallet; a crack appears in the direction of cleavage, and slight leverage with the chisel serves to split the block into two pieces with smooth and even surfaces.

This served to split the patients into responders (R) and non-responders (NR) [ 15, 16, 36].

"Incarcerating young people in detention centres or their equivalent only serves to split families and communities with no evidence of effective results," he said.

In each tree, the branch connecting the monophyletic eukaryotic clade to the prokaryotes serves to splits the prokaryote clade into two groups, one of which is selected as the sister group.

Perhaps last weekend's mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., will serve to diminish the partisan split in attitudes toward guns; early polls on Newtown find relatively modest differences between Democrats and Republicans on what they see as the causes of the shooting.

In the short term, a split could only serve to destabilize Mr. Obama's second term.

This major confound served to justify splitting the normally reading control group into three groups of performers of similar numbers on the same nonverbal IQ test in order to subsequently examine the role of nonverbal IQ in parietal functioning.

The attempt to highlight contradictions in Tory plans on spending cuts had only served to highlight the split within government ranks, he told viewers.