1.   Banks and non-financial firms have been largely divided by law since the Great Depression.

2.   The law divides the money into two pots.

3.   The law divides religions into two categories.

4.   The law divided Indian lands into individual and tribal parcels and put the property into trusts administered by the federal government.

5.   The new law divides NTT into two regional domestic phone companies -- one for Tokyo, the other for the Osaka area -- and one long-distance carrier.

6.   In the old South, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, the races were divided by law.

7.   The dispute arose in part because EU law divides budgetary authority between the parliament and council.

8.   The law has divided the leadership and the vote has been put off until the next parliamentary session in September.