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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
Balkanise .
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Examples
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There could, he said, be "Balkanised" regimes and the destruction of global benchmarks.
Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2008
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London is too big, and has Balkanised, Tribalized like Afghanistan, Acid and Water can be mixed but in very small doses, London is still a collection of small villages or stans or ghettoes or collection of disconnected groups linked by subways [tunnels] and trails to market, and has been so ever since Harry lost it to Willy, the only unifying force be trade and generation of wealth of London.
If I Can’t Have You Nobody Can « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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How is the level of ethnic violence in Sudan reaching such a frenzy that it requires the country to be Balkanised, "an African triumph"?
All of Africa celebrates to see this peaceful referendum 2011
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Those figures are written up by the business desk, and in the Balkanised world of British journalism the business pages are a different planet.
Always honest? 2008
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New Labour's imposition of immigration on a massive scale along with "multi-culturalism" has led to large parts of Britain being Balkanised.
Who Said This? 2007
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"We cannot allow our country be Balkanised again."
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"Britain is descending into Balkanised tribalism."
The Guardian World News Deborah Orr 2011
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After World War I the empire was dismembered in the name of national self-determinism, and so the Balkans were Balkanised, laying the foundations for further conflagrations up to the present day.
Club Troppo 2010
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The fact that the polls are all over the place suggests to me, not that the partys are close, but that the electorate have become Balkanised and it's difficult, on a sample of a couple of thousand, to judge trends or the opinion of the electorate as a whole.
The Guardian World News Jason Deans 2010
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The fact that the polls are all over the place suggests to me, not that the partys are close, but that the electorate have become Balkanised and it's difficult, on a sample of a couple of thousand, to judge trends or the opinion of the electorate as a whole.
The Guardian World News Jason Deans 2010
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