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单词 divide and rule (or conquer)
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divide and rule (or conquer)

The policy of maintaining control over one’s subordinates or opponents by encouraging dissent between them, thereby preventing them from uniting in opposition: the politics of divide and rule in society...
  • The partition plan flowed from Britain's policy of divide and rule.
  • It was playing the old bosses' game of divide and rule to prevent workers' full power being unleashed.
  • As a result of early colonial policies of divide and conquer, the regional governments tended to be drawn along ethnic lines.
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