Sentence examples for decided to divide up from inspiring English sources

In 1978, before the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping officially announced the start of his bold Reform and Open policy, 18 families in Xiaogang, including Mr. Yan's, quietly decided to divide up communal farmland for personal use.

But he does not necessarily need to be any clearer, as long as the message is understood.Around the time that the 1978 plenum was talking of its support for people's communes, a group of impoverished farmers in Anhui province secretly decided to divide up their village farmland into privately managed plots.

Set in 16th-century Japan, the film looks on uneasily as the aging overlord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide up his kingdom among his three sons.

The 17.4% increase in the science budget to almost £4bn in 2011 was "good news overall", but difficulties have arisen over how the government decided to divide the budget up, Diamond said.

The offshore structure was set up when the Candys decided to divide their business in two.

"We have decided to divide and conquer".

Therefore, we decided to divide them into 5 albums and hope you enjoy them.

The Northwest Airlines Corporation has decided to divide a $5 billion order for new aircraft between Airbus Industrie and Boeing.

I also decided to divide the book into decades, with 10 books in each.

Instead, the company decided to divide the brand's campaigns between the two agencies.

Kennedy High decided to divide its students into two attendance shifts.