Sentence examples for playing divide from inspiring English sources
The French colonisers, playing divide and rule, concentrated their educational efforts on the Kabyle mountains.
China is brilliant at playing divide and rule among individual EU countries.
She has also hit the headlines for comments made on Twitter, including a post on the social networking site that said: "White people love playing divide and rule".
The new east European EU members generally take a tougher line than older members; and the Russians, as Europe's chief suppliers of energy, have proved adept at playing divide and rule.
"The chancellor has tried to gloss over public job losses – another 144,000 were forecast just this week – by playing divide and rule with public and private sector workers.
Well precisely, retorts a national diplomat: Mr Barroso is playing "divide and rule".Playing office politicsAll sides agree on the symbolic importance of one issue: Lady Ashton's choice of a Berlaymont office, and her decision to keep her former trade team close to her.
They both want to play "divide and rule".
It would be harder for the Russians to play divide and rule, if Europeans were less easily divided.
Washington has dropped its suspicion of the EU and largely abandoned attempts to play divide and rule.
But then, he reflected, "everybody's situation is different and so it's easy for HS2 to play divide and rule.
Former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, said of Robert Mugabe: "The man has always played divide and rule.
