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Nor is the dividing-line between parody and pastiche absolutely clear-cut.
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They believe that Ed Miliband, the shadow energy and climate change secretary, is more attached to the dividing-line tactics of his mentor Gordon Brown and instinctively wishes to comfort a shaken Labour party.
David Miliband takes 'comfort zone' swipe at Ed in Labour leadership fight 2010
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Yet the dividing-line issue in the upcoming primaries may turn out to be not Iraq, but healthcare.
Jeff Cohen: Will Healthcare Timidity Trip Up Hillary Clinton? 2008
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As healthcare emerges as a dividing-line issue among Democratic candidates, expect mainstream media to tell us the story of Hillary Clinton's healthcare initiative as "First Lady" in 1993.
Jeff Cohen: Will Healthcare Timidity Trip Up Hillary Clinton? 2008
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Yet the dividing-line issue in the upcoming primaries may turn out to be not Iraq, but healthcare.
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As healthcare emerges as a dividing-line issue among Democratic candidates, expect mainstream media to tell us the story of Hillary Clinton's healthcare initiative as "First Lady" in 1993.
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But I think it is less a hard dividing-line than a progression of shades along a continuum, with loss of meaning at every step.
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And just so, on the simplest level, the folks who take general positions they would be horrified to apply to their own friends and families perceive a solid dividing-line between “us/ours” and “them/theirs,” applying different standards to each category.
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For them it was the life of Muhammad that made the great dividing-line in history.
HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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They each advanced one step and their hands met and gripped across the little dividing-line, on one side of which, one of the two stood under the stars which belong to all men, and the other inside the desert dwelling.
The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest
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