Their strategy was to divide and conquer, persuading Chevron and Exxon to settle first.
Divide and conquer: That seems to be the motto of the world's third-richest man.
New York - Divide and conquer: That seems to be the motto of the world's third-richest man.
Along with a rapid military victory in Georgia, Vladimir Putin succeeded with another weapon in Russia's effort to divide and conquer Europe: energy.
The North Koreans are past masters at using such delegations to "divide and conquer, " or at least to confuse and undermine, Western governments with whom they are negotiating.
Obama ran contra the establishment crafting divide and conquer demagoguery.
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That is what is distressing about commentarys (yours from last year, and potentially, without us having had approprimate input, Keith and Tim's now) that appear to "divide and conquer".
Environmentalists are trying to divide and conquer the business community by splitting it into two camps: self-proclaimed "progressive" green-minded companies, egged on by campaigning environmentalists, vs. greedy, Neanderthal defenders of the status quo.
Obama won by ignoring the general welfare and specifically targeting the special interests that would give him enough votes to win no idealism or statesmanship there, just the ruthless political calculation of divide and conquer.
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Some Iraqis say that nostalgia for a united Iraq, plus a suspicion that the Americans intended all along to divide and conquer, still eclipses whatever security benefits the wall's local proponents think it may bring.
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Strong U.S. presidential leadership and the steadiness of the Defense Department (in which I was privileged to serve at the time) under the leadership of Mr. Reagan's Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stymied Soviet attempts to divide and conquer.
Whether it fizzles out or gets busted up through divide and conquer strategies remains to be seen, but the movement, which got its start in the editorial offices of Adbusters, a non-influential magazine based in Vancouver, continues to spread around the world.
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Some now worry about another act of military adventurism to try to divide and conquer its outside partners, confident that China will back it when the chips are down a third nuclear test, for example, perhaps using not North Korea's dwindling stock of plutonium but its newly enriched uranium.
Can consciousness be studied using a reductionist approach, or is consciousness an emergent property arising from brain complexity and thus not amenable to the divide-and-conquer approaches of reductionism?
Dependent people use splitting to control people in power with tactics such as divide-and-conquer.
In larger part, however, these demands are the product of a divide-and-conquer strategy originating in Baghdad.
The turnout on Tuesday marked a step toward repudiating what some analysts say is the military leadership's divide-and-conquer strategy.
Moreover, Boies himself is a brilliant practitioner of Spitzer's divide-and-conquer strategy himself.
He is also well-versed in the type of divide-and-conquer strategy that narrowly failed to topple key NATO governments and prevent the INF missiles from being fielded.
Ethnic conflicts are being stimulated or abetted by Moscow as part of a classic Stalinist divide-and-conquer strategy or as a form of Capone-style "protection" racket, or both.
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This transparent divide-and-conquer stratagem would directly, and perhaps mortally, erode the Secretary of Defense's ability to establish and execute programs for the Defense Department as a whole.
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