1.   He claimed it was part of a plot to split his country so the West could control its oil supplies.

2.   He has refused, arguing that a definitive legal answer would split the country irrevocably.

3.   This would split the country, it might even split the party.

4.   ...nationalist sentiments that threaten to split the country.

5.   The country was split along sectarian lines.

6.   And Canadians are not likely to embrace a renegade province whose departure would split the country in two.

7.   Bosnian Serbs have different license plates from Bosnian Muslims, and the country is split on ethnic lines.

8.   But at the same time it envisages splitting the country roughly in half between a Muslim-Croat federation and a republic of Serbs.

9.   Florida was not the only cliffhanger that split the country down the middle.

10.   If the election is to have long-lasting effects, it will have to reconcile the bitter divisions that have long split the country.