The word "splitting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to refer to the action of separating something into two or more parts. For example, "He was splitting the firewood into smaller pieces with an axe."
In his confidential document on 16 March, Alexander wrote that it "would make it all but impossible for a coalition to be sustainable if it were formed, and extremely difficult to form without splitting the party".
We'd be inclined not to believe him about this, or the story about splitting a pair of boots ("I took the left, he took the right") with a friend for his first ever game, but since he did own up to diving and having a go at referees during his playing days in the same interview, we're prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Visiting his party headquarters, an upbeat Herzog talked about a "crucial" vote for the country and warned against splitting the anti-Netanyahu vote among the various centrist parties, including charismatic leader Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid Party.
I'm still in shock that they're splitting up," she says.
Their hopes of greatly expanding those powers surged after Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and newly elected Conservative MP, admitted the Tories had to extend their offer to Scotland to prevent the union splitting apart.
Try splitting your journey into separate tickets – you don't even have to get off the train.
The blow behind his ear left Thomson requiring five stitches – some reports say he almost lost his ear completely in the incident – and with a splitting headache for the rest of the match.
Seventy thousand devotees go crazy, and shower him with the kind of ear-splitting applause that is usually reserved for film stars, rock stars and royalty.
In the 27th minute Hoops winger James Forrest sent Guidetti through on goal with a defence-splitting pass but the Dundee goalkeeper Scott Bain was quick off his line to block the Swedish striker's shot.
"Most analysts here think that vote-splitting will help Harper and the Conservatives," says Ted Morton, a former Conservative politician and senior fellow at the Manning Foundation thinktank in Calgary.
Despite his well-known personal distaste for atom-splitting, he stayed resolutely on-message: no technology would be favoured, he said, but all would be welcome, including nuclear power.
