divide and rule in English

separate in order to control, strategy of keeping a people or enemy separated into small groups in order to dominate them and prevent effective resistance

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1. Power to appoint is power to divide and rule.

2. Here too the Party could fend off opposition by a policy of divide and rule.

3. Right through their stay there they have adopted the old policy of " Divide and Rule " .

4. The government's policies of divide and rule have only contributed to the volatility of the region.

5. The partition stoked controversy among hardline Hindu nationalists, who described it as an attempt to "divide and rule" the Bengali homeland.

6. The Angolo-Belgian Agreement marked the divide and rule boundary separating the Bakonzo (Banande) and Bamba (Batalinge) in Belgian Congo and British Uganda

7. Armenian and Azerbaijani scholars have speculated that the decision was an application of the principle of "divide and rule" by the Soviet Union.

8. It was the biggest shock to secular Indian nationalism after the suppression of the 1857 revolt and was indeed the greatest victory for the British policy of ' divide and rule ' .