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  • If you suspect that a paper should be sub-divided into more papers, always sub-divide.

    Cowenian Advice: The Best and the Worst, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • If you can go in, buy and sub-divide a lot and build two or more “modern” junk houses, you have a license to make it impossible for the neighbors to remodel their own houses.

    Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia 2010

  • Again, we can sub-divide this manipulative function into exhorting and eliciting, according to whether its operations are direct and explicit or indirect and implicit.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • As implied above, we can also, I think, sub-divide this expressive function into exhibiting and revealing according to whether its operations are direct and explicit or indirect and implicit.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • As implied above, we can also, I think, sub-divide this expressive function into exhibiting and revealing according to whether its operations are direct and explicit or indirect and implicit.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • On the one hand, I think the whole idea of it smacks of a content-oriented approach to the field, an attempt to sub-divide into discrete types identified by their key combinations of tropes.

    Of Genres and Sub-Genres Hal Duncan 2008

  • These tribes are giant lineages, traced from male ancestors, which sub-divide into tribal segments, which in turn divide into clans, sub-clans, and so on, down to families, in which cousins may be pitted against cousins, or brother against brother.

    Tribes of Terror « Isegoria 2008

  • Again, we can sub-divide this manipulative function into exhorting and eliciting, according to whether its operations are direct and explicit or indirect and implicit.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • Best of all, the action this season is taking place in Washington, D.C., rather than overplayed L.A. The Sangala and Washington stories expand and sub-divide even as they continue to merge while the mysteries surrounding many characters continue to grow.

    "24" Regains Its Status as One of TV's Top Dramas 2009

  • Then I thought perhaps I'd like to sub-divide into nationalities.

    Karin Alvtegen 2007

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