Efforts to heal the rift and hold elections in both territories have repeatedly failed.

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Barack Obama and is encouraging fellow Democrats to "heal the rift in our party" and unite behind the Illinois senator.

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The longer the fork had lasted, the bigger the financial hit they would have needed to take to heal the rift.

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If a few extra weeks of inspections really could heal the rift in the Security Council, Mr Bush would be foolish to obstruct them.

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He named her as his secretary of state in an attempt to heal the rift within the Democratic party caused by a bruising primary campaign.

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He apologised to Jews for Catholic passivity during the Holocaust, prayed at a Syrian mosque and took steps to heal the rift between Catholics and adherents of the various eastern Orthodox churches.

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That could be a neat way to heal the rift between the two republics: Mr Milosevic certainly fears that Mr Djukanovic might try to take Montenegro out of Yugoslavia, leaving Serbia all alone.

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Egyptian diplomats, meanwhile, have sought to rally official Arab support for their view that Hamas's rule in Gaza is illegitimate, even while they have been sponsoring talks to heal the rift between Fatah and its Islamist rivals.

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He, however, did nothing to conceal his contempt and she, when she won the 1979 election, made no effort to heal the rift, passing him over for the foreign secretaryship that he wanted and that precedent suggested.

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Lastly he will to try to heal the deep rift in Honduran society generated by the coup, which has split countless families and friendships.

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