His political advisers have told him he must do better in 2004, because minority populations are expanding in so many closely divided states.

In this divided state of mind, I realized I'd make a very poor lawyer, whichever side I took.

Mr. Michnik said reunification was primarily a question for the divided German state to decide.

What better symbolism of a divided state than to create a half-Jewish, half-Arab protagonist?

Pakistan, which presides over part of the divided state, favors a plebiscite.

At the commencement of the Civil War, Missouri was a deeply divided state.

For the most part, Lind's book is a recounting of Texas history: the story of a divided state with two conflicting traditions.

Still, he said, the Albanians here want "only justice," not a separate or divided state.

The British did nothing to change this, leaving the island in its divided state with no unified culture.

The divided state persisted till the area was claimed by the Communist Party of China on January 18, 1949.