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Example sentences for "divided among"

  • Equality of wages for all members; piece-wages allowed only when the surplus earned is divided among one's companions.

  • If the bull and cow belong to different owners, the relation of supply and demand, and the deeper causes that determine them, decide in what proportion the value of the calf is to be divided among them.

  • The second is that in some cases the demesne lands are divided among them in exactly equal[393] shares, so that, though every one has more land than before, the relative sizes of their holdings are unaltered.

  • I then called them all around me, and said to them,-- "The bringing up of the coal for the steam boiler is to be divided among you.

  • During the fifteen that you are on duty you have the entire help of the only Relief Matron in the institution, which ought to be divided among us all, so that you can go out when you please.

  • Divided among themselves, the Greeks are unable to resist you; and you will see, as you advance upon them, those who favour and those who would oppose you in hostility with each other.

  • A quantity of food equal to the frugal support of twenty-one millions, would be to be divided among twenty-eight millions.

  • But the spur that these fancied riches would give to population would more than counterbalance it, and the increased produce would be to be divided among a more than proportionably increased number of people.

  • So the body of the people is annually, at the charge of three days' work and a half, in their own tribes, for the perpetuation of their power, receiving over and above the magistracies so divided among them.

  • It is divided among them; for we have four votes for one in the same family, and therefore this must be the interest of the family, or the family knows not its own interest.

  • It is the custom among assassins to oblige all the witnesses of a murder to strike the murdered victim, that the responsibility may be divided among as large a number of people as possible.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amused myself; capitalist society; divided according; divided against; divided among; divided diagonally from the lower hoist; divided into; each meeting; eastern side; everything else; her first; high range; large cloak; many hundred; mental development; more idea; only slightly; said lightly; said simply; sharp teeth; small amount; state institutions; thirteen years; village communities; witnesses were; would refer