In the hair-splitting ways of America's political hypocrisy, it is perfectly legal to invite a donor to a White House "coffee" as long as no donations are then solicited or received.
At parties, dinners, barbershops and beauty parlors -- wherever blacks typically gather out of the earshot of whites -- African-American icons like the Rev. Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey and Barry Bonds are often torn apart in tough and side-splitting ways.
Democrats spent record amounts of money and boasted that the state would return to its traditional ticket-splitting ways, particularly since the popular George W. Bush was no longer in Texas.
Since the first decades of the 20th century, the narrow, twisting harborside streets that are host to the Monaco Grand Prix and the blindingly fast sweeps of the Indianapolis 500 have defined motor racing on opposite sides of the Atlantic -- and mirrored, in their high-octane, ear-splitting way, something of the broader differences that characterize the sporting cultures in Europe and America.
Bit by bit, he introduces terms such as splitting ("one way we have of getting rid of self-knowledge"), envy that is "unconscious: furtive, resistant to investigation", and, finally, "transference: how we all construct each other according to early blueprints".
The greater cynicism and resentment is reserved for the moral lapses and legal hair-splittings, the way in which the demands of lawyering furnish a license to engage in dishonest behavior.
If their menu is all about splitting things two ways, it's probably the last place you'll want to be.
But Jamieson kept making rods the old way: splitting bamboo cane in six pieces and wrapping it around a glue center.
Put another way, splitting search by area allows the risk of a poor searcher appearing competent but working unchecked and a risk of coordinating search effort (Brennan et al., 2008).
All he is asking for is a little more respect for what is already here (and, perhaps, an end to the expense-account approach of splitting a bill seven ways on seven credit cards).
Bart and Lisa inform Grampa about what they did and the three of them conspire to continue passing off Bart and Lisa's scripts as Grampa's own, splitting the money three ways.
