1.  During the Becket quarrel, when their support was split between king and archbishop, their crucial and ambivalent position was shown.

2.  Both the right and the left are trying to make sure that their support is not split by having numerous candidates in the race.

3.  According to exit polling conducted by a consortium of news operations, Dole split the support of Christian conservatives with Buchanan.

4.  According to analysts this and other moves are part of the Great Game of trying to pull the Taliban apart and split its support.

5.  Columbus is approximately midway between Cleveland and Cincinnati, and the support is split between the Reds and the Indians.

6.  Congressional support was split at a hearing Tuesday when union president Duane Woerth brought up the idea.

7.  That support was evenly split between the two parties, Sullivan, the top Senate Democrat, said.

8.  The candidates are splitting support from centrist voters.

9.  The development could cost him votes by splitting support among the candidates opposed to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee.

10.  And Gore split the support of the independent, or undeclared, voters with Bradley, whose earlier strength was built largely on support from that group.