Georgia Splits the Kremlin

Thaksin s appeal splits the reds.

Mary can do the splits.

Splits a stream in its tracks!

She goes, Mom, everyone can't do the splits.

I go to a place where a dowel splits off.

These splits have implications for how business can affect policymaking.

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The splits are stark, too, from age, to levels of education, to geographic borders.

At its entrance in the mouth of the Black Sea it splits into two estuary channels.

There were serious splits, but no one could have known exactly what the end results would be.

Lacking coherent principles or an overriding ideology, these groups fragment when their leadership changes or splits, as Congress did.

To the east is the Øresund, which splits Denmark and Sweden and joins the Baltic Sea to the North Sea.

Worryingly, this might also happen if the FARC splits, with one part deciding to negotiate while hard line military commanders fight on.

And what about the Alawites (the backbone of Assad s regime), who could face a terrible destiny, regardless of whether the country splits up?

The splits proposed by Colin left him with what I considered to be the best properties, he wrote in an initial court affidavit in 2015.

But, at least so far, there have been no splits reported among the Revolutionary Committees, Qaddafi s diehard loyalists, who are estimated to total around 20,000 fighters.

But, at least so far, there have been no splits reported among the Revolutionary Committees, Qaddafi s diehard loyalists, who are estimated to total around 20,000 fighters.

Libyan military Intelligence, headed by Abdullah al Sonosi, the Internal Security Forces, led by al Tuhami Khaled, and the Jamahiriya Security Apparatus also remain intact, with no reported splits.

True, the deep, ingrained rivalry and mistrust between Libya s military security apparatuses is likely to give rise to splits that will be a key factor in undermining the regime.

The Iranian regime is not, however, a totalitarian juggernaut there are important splits within the leadership and there is an important faction that does not want Iran to be isolated.

Indeed, the splits today resemble those that occurred when Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, an exit that led to civil war and the Taliban s eventual capture of the capital, Kabul.

Some of the moderate orthodox parties, which have been undergoing their own internal splits, have also signaled their willingness to work with a center left bloc that might enable Israel to make real progress.

Their responses will be published as part of an ongoing series debunking myths and offering a more nuanced take on certain parts of the world. The latest installment is by Global Voices Japan editor Nevin Thompson, who splits his time between Canada and Japan.