divided nation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdividedandnation
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divided
adjective
uk/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/us/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/
split into two or more opposing groups who ...
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nation
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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These are histories of 'winning the peace' in half a century, in a once, and to some extent still,dividednation.
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Adividednation, on a fundamental point like this, is necessarily weak and ineffective.
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To start an adventure like this when you know that behind you is a deeplydividednation, seems to me entirely wrong.
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Once again, we live in adividednation.
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I do not accept that negative policy, that there is adividednationthat can not be brought together.
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We have heard a great deal about thedividednation, in particular the north-south divide, this evening and for many months.
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I do not accept that we are adividednationof regions.
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This will give us a moredividednation.
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I think that always leads to the threat that we may well be adividednation.
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He advocated and introduced a policy of social reform to alleviate the dangers of adividednation.
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Basically it is clear that the situation is serious because we are adividednation.
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Would it be adividednation, divided between rich and poor, between those who live in council houses and those who live in private houses?
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I do not believe that we have adividednation.
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So we now have a confused anddividednation.
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No strategy can work with adividednation.
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The economic problems of the island cannot be solved, in my view, by adividednation.
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I regret to say this, but we are a deeplydividednationon linguistic and cultural grounds and our divisiveness is increasing.
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That was not one nation; that was adividednation—a nation at war with itself.
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