For a start, the widening split between accounting standard-setters is a huge difficulty.
Their crueller critics call them "bon bon"—poor little rich kids who have been fed expensive foreign sweets all their lives.No one, however, should overlook the widening split between reformers and conservatives in the party.
Mr. O'Brien, known to friends as the Cruiser, was born in Dublin on Nov. 3, 1917, to a family with a long political pedigree on both sides of the widening split in Irish political life.
The Post — and it is hardly alone in this view — sees a widening split, both "stylistic [and] substantive," between "the establishment and a newly energized populist wing," led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
He has a history of standing firm on issues he believes in, in foreign affairs at least: witness his chivvying of the rest of the world to take action against the Serbs in Kosovo.Second, Mr Blair believes that a widening split between America and Europe, at this tense time, would have disastrous consequences for world stability.
Hillary, encountering a widening split in the ice underfoot: "It was a nasty shock.
Mr. Shirzai and other leaders of the opposition to the Taliban described in interviews a widening split between moderate and fundamentalist Taliban factions.
The access provision raises different constitutional issues, however, and there has been a widening split among the federal appeals courts over how to analyze state immunity claims under that provision.
Angela became the generally well liked and hardworking MP for Wallasey, though in the bitter and widening split between the parliamentary Labour party and the grassroots members, there have been mutters that she could face deselection.
There are indications of a widening split among Mr. Arafat's closest associates, an old guard who followed him into exile and a younger group born in refugee camps and in Palestinian territories.
