In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.

Transverse ridges running between the continents and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge divide the ocean floor into numerous basins.

One modern approach which attempts to overcome the seemingly impossible divide between deontology and utilitarianism is case-based reasoning, also known as casuistry.

In the summer of 1214, Andrew had a meeting with Grand Duke Leszek I of Poland and they agreed that they would divide the Principality of Halych between Hungary and Poland.

The Black Forest is part of the continental divide between the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin ( drained by the Rhine ) and the Black Sea drainage basin ( drained by the Danube ).

On the draft resolution condemning violence in Syria, Brazil worked with India and South Africa to try to bridge the divide between the Western powers and Russia and China.

For the latter Bulgaria had a secret agreement with Serbia to divide it between them signed at 13 March 1912 during the negotiations that led to the establishment of the Balkan League.

Deeper waters separating Borneo from neighboring Sulawesi prevented a land connection to that island, creating the divide between Asian and Australia-New Guinea biological regions known as Wallace's Line.

The Nelson and Mackenzie watersheds are separated by a divide between streams flowing to the Arctic Ocean and those of the Hudson Bay watershed.

Even if the wave function is not regarded as real, there is still a divide between those who treat it as definitely and entirely subjective, and those who are non-committal or agnostic about the subject.

The French finally acquired the islands through a cunning mixture of strategies, including the policy of ' divide and conquer ', chequebook politics and a serendipitous affair between a sultana and a French trader that was put to good use by the French, who kept control of the islands, quelling unrest and the occasional uprising.

The Casiquiare canal – Orinoco River hydrographic divide is a representation of the hydrographic water divide that delineates the separation between the Orinoco Basin and the Amazon Basin.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

Studies of how we know in ethics divide into cognitivism and non-cognitivism ; this is similar to the contrast between descriptivists and non-descriptivists.

Each character begins with twenty points to divide between four Element scores roughly equivalent to statistics for Strength ( Fire ), Perception ( Water ), Intelligence ( Air ) and Endurance ( Earth ).

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Evangelicalism has therefore been described as " the third of the leading strands in American Protestantism, straddl the divide between fundamentalists and liberals ".

Then his brothers began to divide his inheritance ; but his wife Frigg they shared between them.

The Spaniard, Michael Servetus denounced the orthodox Christian formulation of the Trinity ( demonstrating the only explicit reference to the Trinity in the New Testament to be a later interpolation ); and hoped thereby to bridge the doctrinal divide between Christianity and Islam.

In January 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference, negotiators from France, Britain, and Greece agreed to divide Albania among Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece as a diplomatic expedient aimed at finding a compromise solution to the territorial conflict between Italy and Yugoslavia.

Babur's decision to divide the territories of his empire between two of his sons was unusual in India, but it had been a common Central Asian practice since the time of Genghis Khan.

Starting with the unification of Italy in 1861, a wide and increasing economic divide has been noticeably growing between the northern provinces and the southern half of the Italian state.

The second player ( B ) plays the mirror image of the first player's move, hoping to divide the board into two pieces and tie the game.

For a cell to divide, it must first replicate its DNA.

In the first step, the final nonzero remainder r < sub > N − 1 </ sub > is shown to divide both a and b. Since it is a common divisor, it must be less than or equal to the greatest common divisor g. In the second step, it is shown that any common divisor of a and b, including g, must divide r < sub > N − 1 </ sub >; therefore, g must be less than or equal to r < sub > N − 1 </ sub >.

Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas created the first successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer, that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

This was where the internal / external divide doctrine was first expressed, probably due to judicial reluctance to hospitalise someone for a condition that could be cured by a sugar lump.

Eratosthenes the Cyrene was the first to divide the surface of the earth into lines of latitude and longitude.

However, Jacques ( 2006 ) notes, " comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto-Burman languages ( the Sino-Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese )," and that " it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino-Tibetan family ," as the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of Old Chinese.

Mečiar and Klaus negotiated the agreement to divide Czechoslovakia, and Mečiar's party — HZDS — ruled Slovakia for most of its first five years as an independent state, except for a 9-month period in 1994 after a vote of no-confidence, during which a reformist government under Prime Minister Jozef Moravčík operated.

After the first group of Senators was elected to the First Congress ( 1789 – 1791 ), the Senators were divide into three " classes " as nearly equal in size as possible, as required by this section.

Ancient commentators noted that Virgil seems to divide the Aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of Homer ; the first six books were viewed as employing the Odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the Iliad.

Whereas the first two paradoxes presented divide space, this paradox starts by dividing time — and not into segments, but into points.

The first theorem is shown similarly ; one can divide the random string into nonoverlapping blocks matching the size of the desired text, and make E < sub > k </ sub > the event where the kth block equals the desired string.

The fourth division occurs first in the cells of the animal pole which end up making 8 blastomeres ( mesomeres ) that are not radially symmetric, then the four vegetal pole blastomeres divide to make a level of four large blastomeres ( macromeres ) and four very small blastomeres ( micromeres ).

The first publication to divide the papers in such a way was an 1810 edition that used a list left by Hamilton to associate the authors with their numbers ; this edition appeared as two volumes of the compiled " Works of Hamilton ".

Jan Hus ' theological writing first appears at the beginning of the 15th century ; he wrote first in Latin, later in Czech, and this divide remained for much of the later period: poetry and intellectual prose used primarily Latin, whereas popular prose was written in Czech or German.

At first, this zone contains " progenitor " cells, which divide to produce glial and neuronal cells.

< li > Chapters 1 – 17 deal with terms: what they are, and how they are divide into categorematic, abstract and concrete, absolute and connotative, first intention, and second intention.

It is canonical to divide the artistic career of Velázquez by his two visits to Italy, with his second grouping of works following the first visit and his third grouping following the second visit.

Monoamnionic twins divide after the first week.

One can loosely divide the group's history into two periods: the more horn-oriented earlier ensembles ( typically with some combination of Watts, saxophonist Evan Parker and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler ), and the later string-based ensembles with guitarist Roger Smith ( who became as central to the second edition of SME as Watts was to the first ) and violinist Nigel Coombes.

The trail followed the great divide between the Missouri and Mississippi watershed and ran through the site of what was to become Macon County's first county seat, Bloomington, in 1837.

Avicenna was also the first to divide human perception into the five external senses ( the classical senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch known since antiquity ) and the five internal senses which he discovered himself.

The Smell of Rain created a divide among fans ; the songs this time had an electropop feel to them, and frontman Ellefsen took to lead vocals for the first time.