Sentence examples for widening split from inspiring English sources

For a start, the widening split between accounting standard-setters is a huge difficulty.

Hillary, encountering a widening split in the ice underfoot: "It was a nasty shock.

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.

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.

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.

So is Mr Anwar's boast the bluff of the half-century?Malaysians might have concluded thus had it not been for the signs of panic from the government over the threat from Mr Anwar, and its deep and widening splits over Mr Badawi's leadership.

North Korea may also be hoping that fears about what it may do next with its plutonium will widen splits between the other five at the negotiating table.

The government does not like the idea but is quietly supporting it in a cynical ploy to widen splits in Pakatan Rakyat, the opposition coalition struggling without Mr Anwar.By encouraging the Islamists, the government is fanning racial and religious divisions in a majority-Malay (and Muslim) country with large ethnic-Chinese and ethnic-Indian minorities.

A3 Western Split Over Iran Widens The foreign policy chief of the European Union said the Iranian government had been honest about its nuclear work, widening the split between Europe and the United States over Iran's nuclear program.

B3 The View From Europe TENSIONS AMONG MUSLIMS -- The terror attacks in the United States seem to be widening a split that has long existed among Europe's Muslims: those who believe in an accommodation between Islam and life in the West and those drawn to a more radical view.