Englishfor English speakers
Examples cone fracture examples
How do I use cone fracture in a sentence?
News and current affairs
If Russia does veto the Ahtisaari plan, the EU's united facade will likely fracture, with many European countries refusing either to join the US in recognizing an independent Kosovo without the UN's blessing or to send a supervisory mission there.
So, not surprisingly, Republicans are using the vote on the debt ceiling to force cuts in entitlement spending, while Obama and Congressional Democrats are using it to force higher taxes, in part to fracture their opponents' coalition.
But now the conflict has spread across the Middle East, destabilizing Lebanon and Jordan and threatening to fracture Iraq.
The resulting fracture zones - in the Balkans and the Middle East, for example - are the source of some of today's gravest risks to regional and even world peace.