• In the case of land, wealth and sovereignty, sharing can be understood best as sharing by division which involves the apportionment of goods between individuals.
• I interpret the distribution as a mutually agreeable division of the chattels in question.
• It was complicated and did not reflect the division of responsibilities between schools and LEAs.

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• Eventually, when we got to the final vote on the third reading a division was not even called, so I did not even have to have the necessary vote.
• The Bolton West MP took part in just 29.2 per cent of divisions or votes in the last parliamentary session - placing her 13 th from bottom.
• If the Hunting Bill was so important, why did neither the Prime Minister nor the Chancellor bother to vote in most divisions?

• By supposing that the atoms form the lowest limit to division, the atomists escape from this dilemma: a total space traversed has only a finite number of parts.
• Aristotle proposes a solution that applies to definitions reached by the ‘method of division.’

• The rules for multiplication and division of a matrix by a scalar (a real number) are simpler.
• The former is better for addition and subtraction of vectors, but can be used for multiplication and division of vectors as well.

• We have started 2005 with a simpler business focused on our core lending and retail divisions.
• Many large firms organized research divisions and departments that institutionalized technological change.
• Beacon, Best Western's separate purchasing division, also operates out of the Clifton Moor headquarters.

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• However, brigades, divisions, corps, and armies formed only as needed in wartime and were promptly disbanded during peacetime.
• It contained eight infantry divisions, one cavalry brigade, and a tank brigade.
• Today's Army divisions are composed of brigades, not regiments.

• Jefferson, 27, currently ranks second in the U.S. at 73 kg, one of the most competitive weight divisions in judo.
• Things will even out now that teams are playing more teams outside of their divisions, and the preseason expectations will look more viable.
• By the end of the decade the league had eight teams in two divisions and all teams played a 72-game schedule.

• The city's six police divisions will be merged into four in a move that will see management and administration cuts while support staff will help police officers with paperwork, giving them more time on the beat.
• Currently 12 of the 16 police divisions in the city offer programs similar to Community Alert and Auto-dialler.
• Sources say that in city divisions such as Howdenhall, which covers a large part of south Edinburgh, there can be as few as four beat officers available on day and night shifts.

• The county's electoral divisions will change next year and South Woodham looks set to be freed from the nearby villages it is tied to, making it a stand-alone division
• A total of 229 hopefuls have put their names forward as candidates for each of the county's divisions for the election on May 5.
• Winston Jones, making his first appearance in South Bradford as prospective parliamentary candidate for the division, was introduced to the new branch.

• The species are separated into the divisions Pteridophyta, Coniferophyta, and Magnoliophyta.
• It does not correspond to divisions between the four principal botanical species of squash.

• These divisions reflect major changes in the composition of ancient faunas, each era being recognized by its domination by a particular group of animals.
• Thus, at the present time the taxonomic divisions at the familial level in the Orthocerida are not clear and a meaningful classification is not possible.