Jews may have a reputation for tolerance, but they are splintered on gay issues.
"It's not only that the parties are splintered between each other," the last of the warrior-patriarchs went on, "but now they are splintered from inside.
So while Mr. Peskin's left-leaning allies have increasingly occupied elected office, they are splintered and much less likely to coalesce under him into an old-style urban political machine, political experts said.
The wooden kind from a restaurant will work, but not for any good length of time as they snap easily and if they're splintered, they will catch on your hair and hurt.
They're splintering off characters, they're doing the origin story, they have different casts.
Even his faxed thank you notes are treated as if they were splinters from the true cross.
Her left leg was still attached, but the bones were splintered, the muscles ruptured.
Structural lumber and furniture were splintered and scattered about.
"They've been splintered before but they seem to be moving in a singular direction".
Jeffrey Berry, a political scientist at Tufts University, said his research showed that nationwide, black candidates "have a terrible time getting elected from districts where there isn't a very, very large African-American population, and in the case of Boston, what base they have is splintered".
