21.   In the villages of Kosovo, the ethnic divisions are only too evident.

22.   On a continent undermined by political instability and ethnic divisions, Ivory Coast had long been a shining exception.

23.   Other officials acknowledged that, by sending refugees back to areas controlled by their own ethnic group, the result will be a further cementing of ethnic division.

24.   Q. You mean there are ethnic divisions, too?

25.   Remarkably, this difference transcends the broad ethnic divisions between subgroups of Jews.

26.   Religious tensions are overlaid on the ethnic division, for Indonesians are mostly Muslims while many of the Indonesian Chinese are Christians.

27.   Still, the allegations of an ethnically motivated crackdown underscore the difficulty of safeguarding a stable government in a country riven by ethnic divisions and internecine power struggles.

28.   The effort to bridge ethnic division in Bosnia, which is beginning to work, could be set back.

29.   The conflict is hardening ethnic divisions, causing worry that it could cause Bosnian Serbs to try to secede from the country and join Yugoslavia.

30.   The ethnic divisions were sufficiently deep that Germans only married Germans and, at times, differences were settled with bricks thrown through storefront windows.