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divide and conquer
Idioms and Phrases
Also, divide and govern or rule . Win by getting one's opponents to fight among themselves. For example, Divide and conquer was once a very successful policy in sub-Saharan Africa . This expression is a translation of the Latin maxim, Divide et impera (“divide and rule”), and began to appear in English about 1600.Example Sentences
"Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us to divide and conquer," Carney made clear.
He and his wife decided they would “divide and conquer.”
A strongman ruler practices the fine political art of divide and conquer, insisting on loyalty at all costs.
Nikki’s poem “Fear: Eat in or Take Out,” which she read during a 2017 TED Talk, teaches us “to distill fear,” rather than let any powers-that-be persuade us to mix our fear with the hate that empowers them to divide and conquer us all.
We must, as Nikki told us in that TED Talk, “learn to distill fear,” rather than let any powers-that-be persuade us to mix our fear with the hate that empowers them to divide and conquer us all.
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