The basic idea is that a party's vote total is divided by a certain figure which increases as it wins more seats.
Nigeria is divided by rivalry between the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south, which also have cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences.
The court is divided by the same conservative-liberal ideological split over whether to relax the rules on the separation of church and state, especially in education.
GPs will be advised to use the body mass index, where the person's weight in kilograms is divided by his height squared in metres, to get a reading.
The menu is divided not by course, in the typical fashion, but by types of wine.
That survey showed an organization that is divided -- by age and, in some cases, by region.
What matters regarding the future of the economy is the Real Dow, which is the Dow divided by the price of gold.
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"You have an issue that the public is very divided over, that is accompanied by a lot of controversy, a lot of mythology, and a lot of misunderstanding, " Oberlander says.
The earnings yield is calculated as earnings divided by price.
This phone company's enterprise multiple (market value plus debt minus cash, divided by Ebitda) is 9.
This is the cost of goods sold divided by the average value of inventory for a given period.
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But he wonders whether South Carolina, a state historically divided by race, is ready to elect a black attorney general.
The Real Dow, which is the Dow Jones Industrial Average divided by the price of gold, increased by 126%, from 17.54 to 39.63, which was near its all-time high.
The arbitrage has to do with the fact that the earnings yield on equities (earnings divided by price) is often more than the aftertax cost of money (which is, roughly, two-thirds of whatever your long-term interest rate is).
The enterprise value multiple (market cap plus debt, divided by operating income) is a cheap 4.9.
Another era etched into the memory of Berliners is the years in which it was divided by the Berlin Wall.
Valuation compared to its projected five-year growth rate is also modest: Limited's PEG ratio (price-to-earnings ratio divided by long-term growth rate of 15%) is 0.96.
Living Language French, by Random House Digital, is divided into beginning, intermediate and advanced sections.
The community is divided into groups of men and women led by a male and a female head.
The annual yield, meaning dividends divided by the stock price, is now 2.9%.
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Non-GAAP operating margin is defined as non-GAAP operating income divided by revenues.
What's more, Italy's dividend yield, meaning annual dividends divided by the stock price, is above 4%, compared with just 2.7% for the world overall.
In the example, the spread is 0.15% (that is the bid subtracted from the ask, divided by the share price and multiplied by 100).
The dividend yield on the index (dividends divided by the stock price) is just 2.1% a fraction of historic averages, and barely enough to keep pace with current, subdued inflation.
"Velocity" is defined, roughly, as gross domestic product divided by the money supply.
This is Japanese GDP per member of the labor force divided by US GDP per member of the labor force.
This is why a high current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) raises my level of skepticism when I look at a company.
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That's hard to do in a democratic republic, especially one that is closely divided between right and left, as evidenced by the swings in election results between 2004 and 2006, 2008 and 2010 and 2010 and 2012--not to mention that 2012 re-elected both a Democratic president and a Republican House.
What is clear is that the EU complicated matters hugely by letting a divided Cyprus join.
The first and easy cut is simply Federal Interest Outlays as a Fraction of GDP divided by the GDP deflator.
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