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  • noun Plural form of devision.: obsolete spelling of divisions.

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Examples

  • Please please make health care affordable and attanable by all and put aside some of of those devisions of polital parties, We all need this to happen for the health and safty of the country.

    Senate committee starts revising health care reform proposal 2009

  • He set up 2 SS devisions of Bosnians and Albanians who fought with the German troops in Russia, committing with them ghastly war crimes against the local civilian population, Christians and, of course, Jews. al-Husseini was also deeply committed to the genocide of European Jewry and even visited Auschwitz to inspect how Jewish families, including small children,were gassed.

    Islam’s ‘Great British’ infiltration Lionheart 2007

  • She had withdrawn from the race because she did not want any devisions within the ANC, Mokaba said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • She had withdrawn from the race because she did not want any devisions within the ANC, Mokaba said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Skinner And Summers ought to be here before elections to heal the distractions or devisions in the Whig ranks and make up for Imbodens deficiencies -- he is now stumping it little [illeg.].

    Augusta County: William Kinney to Alexander H. H. Stuart, October 24, 1857 William Kinney 1857

  • A rotation system for immigration status needs to be introduced to limit the growing numbers of any one particular nationality - as we have seen, this has fermented devisions within communities, despite this constant espousal of multiculturalism.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010

  • I hold Fox news very responsible for spreading the disinformation and slander that is creating the tremendous partisan devisions in America and dragging us down.

    WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2010

  • So then they shoulde not be judges and magistrates themselves, especially in the devisions of kingdomes; and, to leave all spirituall men an example, he paid tribute and toll for himselfe and Peter, and submitted himselfe and his apostles under the civill magistrate and politique governemente; yet the Pope, whoe saieth that he is Peters successor, will be a disposer of civill causes and temporall domynions.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Go after the devisions best & don't go past 140.. email

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • But that is one of the reasons why I read the new scientist, because it repackages all the other devisions of science that I don't have time to study myself in a way that I can still get excited about.

    New Scientist - Space 2009

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