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  • It's not an ideal solution (divying the oil resources would be difficult, Iran would get a client state and minorities like Turkmen and Christians would get the shaft) but if the alternative is continued sectarian conflict while the U.S. clings to the hope that Iraq Sunnis will one day start trusting a vindictive Shia government ... then I guess dividing the country is the realistic way to go.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • We are now stuck with the logic of quotas and proportional divying-of-the-spoils — in so many areas.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Messy, Murky Voting Rights Act: A Primer. 2009

  • I realize part of the problem is that damn old bugaboo - colonializing the divying up of africa into nations by the colonialists irrespective of agers old tribal animousity

    MLK Day Steven Barnes 2008

  • Does being in on divying up Iraqi oil fields pre-war count as “aquaintance”?

    Think Progress » Snow On Lay’s Death: ‘I Don’t Know, What Do You Think Would Be The Appropriate Thing To Say?’ 2006

  • I remember someone associated with the CF18 purchase state that the final package was 25% aircraft purchase and 75% divying out the industrial offsets.

    From the Department of Stupefyingly Obvious Statements 2007

  • We agree, although I thik you underestimate the degree to which divying up a conglomerated mass of rights makes it MUCH more complex to assign them.

    The anti-marriage-equality bait-and-switch 2004

  • Michelle Williams would certainly make my shortlist, but I think the movie just too teeny-tiny for it to translate into an action nomination (Kristin Scott Thomas, Sally Hawkins, and Melissa Leo are already divying up the hypothetical indie voting block).

    The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2009

  • You're not unifying humanity and creating a social synthesis, you're divying it up and contributing to division.

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • If there was one thing that could end a childhood friendship it would be at the moment of divying-up the Joes and there was only one Storm Shadow.

    Cotton & Sand 2008

  • Bunch of euroweenies and commies divying up the (former) U.S. financial system.

    Latest Articles 2008

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