divided country
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdividedandcountry
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divided
adjective
uk/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/us/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/
split into two or more opposing groups who ...
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country
noun
uk/ˈkʌn.tri/us/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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(Definition ofdividedandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The dangers of adividedcountrymay well be exaggerated, but they do exist.
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They also left us a far moredividedcountry.
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We shall have a disturbed anddividedcountry.
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It is adividedcountryand it wants to reunite.
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That few bob will not stop people being part of an increasingly nasty anddividedcountry.
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What is most damaging is that we will have a system that is increasingly divided—a divided education system serving an increasinglydividedcountry.
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I am talking about the conditions for a united country and not adividedcountry.
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We wonder why this is adividedcountry.
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Above all, if we are so successful, why is this still such adividedcountry?
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I do not like the notion of adividedcountry; it is wrong.
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That is the test of adividedcountry, and that is the way in which they are now proceeding.
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Many were dismayed to find that they are living in a seriouslydividedcountry.
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Britain is adividedcountry, and a nation cannot be operated in that way.
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The country now has some democratic history, and, provided that there is no going back on the advances made so far, there is hope for that troubled anddividedcountry.
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It is also about the state of our sadlydividedcountry.
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If we do not change course, we will have two classes of health service, two classes of state school, and, as a result, a fractured anddividedcountry.
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We are adividedcountry.
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Berlin, celebrating its 750th anniversary, is a divided city in adividedcountry—a sad commentary on our modern world.
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The human exchanges between thatdividedcountryalso acted as a mechanism for change.
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