Sentence examples for split peacefully from inspiring English sources

A closer parallel would be Czechoslovakia, which, in 1993, split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Eritrea split peacefully from Ethiopia in 1993, but has since been involved in dreadful wars and subject to an undemocratic system.

Doubek, a Berwyn, Ill.-born son of Bohemian parents whose homeland had been absorbed into Czechoslovakia, was enthused at the news that his ancestors' home had just split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Peaceful divorces between nations are rare (As Jo Swinnen aptly pointed out, one of the reasons Slovakia and Czechs could split peacefully was because they did not share a capital. The capital of Czechoslovakia Praguee) was 100% part of the Czech Republic, which was not contested by the Slovaks). Hopefully we can reach such a peaceful outcome in the Holy Land.

In a Comment that ran in the May 4, 2009, issue of the magazine, Hendrik Hertzberg argued that, if Texas truly wanted to leave the Union, then maybe the rest of the country should accommodate it, in the same way that, in 1993, Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Serbia and Montenegro split peacefully several years ago.

1989 Havel elected President, completing the 'velvet revolution'. 1 January 1993 Czechoslovakia splits peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, completing the 'velvet divorce'.

The Slovaks split off peacefully from the Czechs in 1993.

But it has been under severe strain partly because of intertribal fighting in the south.Mr Gration is using his political clout to force both sides to stick to their agreements under the CPA, thus offering hope that the peace will stick and that the south will be allowed to split off peacefully, if it chooses to.

The 5.4 million people of Slovakia, which was formed in 1993 when the old Czechoslovakia peacefully split apart, hoped that the corruption, crony capitalism and economic stagnation associated with Mr. Meciar's rule would disappear.

But all those preconceptions were shattered when in 2001 the 26-year olds Bjarke Ingels and Julied De Smedt left Rem Koolhaas' OMA to found their own, hugely successful PLOT, which only 5 years later peacefully split in the two just as successful practices BIG and JDS.