In Mitrovica, for example, NATO's passivity has effectively allowed the Serbs to partition the town.
Mr Assad could also try to partition the country, taking his WMD with him.
And, as you can imagine, in order to partition those assets properly, each must be assigned an accurate dollar value.
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Upending this model with a new regulatory treaty is likely to partition the Internet as some countries would inevitably choose to opt out.
Albanians, probably rightly, see this as a forerunner to partition.
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It might win GOP lawmakers some points with conservative constituents, but it's no more likely to happen than the dream of some Californians to partition the Golden State in two.
But political negotiations have broken down over Albanian demands for a new constitution giving them a veto on all major decisions by the state -- a positions ethnic Macedonians say amounts to partition.
For its part, the Olmert-Barak-Livni government already made clear through official statements and leaks that it is ready to withdraw from Judea and Samaria and to partition Jerusalem and surrender the Temple Mount.
It took no special prescience half a century ago for the world to see that an irrepressible conflict had arisen between two national communities in Palestine, and that the only solution was to partition the country between them.
The people who are going to be part of the collective, as opposed to the fragmented, market are the people who are using open protocols and who are designing not just interoperability, but making it possible to partition and provision how clients and servers connect and cooperate.
Palestinian-American director Jackie Salloum tells the story of a handful of young emcees scattered throughout Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, trying to overcome politics and partition to make their music.
Their opposition to the Partition of Palestine was based on historical, legal, ethnic and other grounds.
IRA-speak, the potential to end partition and sever all links between Northern Ireland and Britain.
Most likely this is due to delayed remorse over Britain's blundering policies that led to the partition of India in 1947.
He tried the patience of more practical and straightforwardly ambitious politicians like Nehru, for example by proposing Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's would-be leader, as India's first prime minister, to avert partition.
Speaking at Milltown cemetery, she also reiterated Sinn Fein's demand for a border poll, arguing that the campaign for such a referendum should threaten no-one, but demonstrates Sinn Fein's resolve to end partition peacefully.
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Highlights of the week include an art installation at a sectarian interface in north Belfast and an Understanding the Past centenaries event looking back at the turbulent period leading up to the partition of Ireland.
The Palestinians' decision to reject statehood at Camp David in 2000 and launch a terror war against Israel made clear that they had not abandoned their refusal from 1947 to accept partition of the Land of Israel with the Jews.
The lack of such basic legal research is telling as to the significance of partition in the decision to form PLP.
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It is a throwback to the 1947 partition plan, which decades of hostility and war have swept off the negotiating table.
Like him, Hamas appears more comfortable with temporary arrangements with the enemy than with a final partition to end the conflict for ever.
It was the issue of Jerusalem that deadlocked and ultimately scuttled Livni's coalition negotiations with Shas, which demanded that she pledge not to negotiate the partition of the city with the Palestinians.
Instead of supporting Israel, Tibi asked the US to lend its support to support the partition of the land west of the Jordan River between a Jew-free Arab state of "Palestine, " and a non-Jewish state in the rest of the area.
He is also pushing for Israel to agree to a de facto partition of Jerusalem.
The Albanians reject this policy on the grounds that it would amount to Kosovo's partition.
However, not every Mac user has the disk space or desire to run a Windows partition.
In part, that's because many Punjabis displaced by the partition came to New Delhi and became restaurateurs.
According to them, the partition of India took place on the basis of religion - Hindus and Muslims.
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Fans of partition tend to ignore the situation in central Bosnia, where many Croats live in enclaves surrounded by Muslims.
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