• It has agreed that the sea-bed and its oil riches should be divided up into national sectors.

    ECONOMIST: Still most awkward partners

  • After all, it's divided up into regionals, and, quaintly, regional is really a word borrowed from high-school tournaments.

    NPR: NCAA Tournament Filled with Undeserving Teams

  • It's been a controversial measure in part because of the way it is divided up into different weight categories.

    BBC: BMI: Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?

  • Those who have been inside describe it as being divided up into cages in some areas, with walled-off rooms in others.

    BBC: Bagram: US base in Afghanistan

  • Baghdad may end up divided into fortified sectarian enclaves anyway.

    ECONOMIST: Do the people of Baghdad want security barriers? Yes and no

  • All the tournament's teams are staying at University of Surrey's sports halls of residence at their sports park in Guildford and we've divided up our block into four families with six or seven team members to each floor.

    BBC: Catrina Nicholas column

  • Some performances have up to a hundred roles, divided into historical, religious, political, social, supernatural, real, imaginary and fantasy characters.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • In the final carve-up, the protocol divided the industrialised countries into eight groups with different targets for reducing their greenhouse gases.

    ECONOMIST: Global warming

  • It was also the chief who divided up the two plates of rice that were pushed into the cell every day.

    NEWYORKER: Cell One

  • It is also worth remembering that when Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia set up ASEAN in 1967, Southeast Asia was divided into two Cold War blocs: communist Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, versus the other essentially pro-Western nations (apart from non-aligned Burma).

    CNN: AND THEN THERE WERE TEN

  • The basket of goods and services is divided into 12 broad categories, and every year the ONS comes up with weightings for each category based on how often they are bought by an average person.

    BBC: Inflation calculator: How does it work?

  • Among the facility's chief design features on the ground floor is the digital learning suite: a large, flexible space that can be divided into two discrete media labs or function as an open auditorium for up to 100 students, with specially designed mobile computer workstations.

    ENGADGET: Museum of The Moving Image plans multi-million dollar updates with HD, 3D

  • The main screen displays a map of Britain divided into 61 regions, each one of which holds some of the 659 seats up for grabs.

    BBC: Playing the politics game

  • The girls were divided into teams, each named after a famous female technologist or scientist, and asked to come up with a new piece of sport technology, from apps through to running shoes.

    BBC: Women and tech: Why don't girls want to be geeks?

  • Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.

    ECONOMIST: Jazz singers

  • It was created in 1918 (when Otto was five) from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, taken over and broken up by Germany in 1939, became a communist state in 1948 and since 1993 has been divided into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

    ECONOMIST: Otto Wichterle

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