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  • It's this return of former colonial powers to the Arab world to reclaim oil concessions in Libya, following the occupation of Iraq, that has led Gamal Abdel Nasser's former confidant Mohamed Heikal to talk recently of the threat of an effective new "Sykes-Picot agreement" – the carve-up between Britain and France after the first world war – and a redivision of spoils in the region.

    Egypt has halted the drive to derail the Arab revolution | Seumas Milne 2011

  • Together with Professor Yohanan Aharoni, Amiran wrote an essay on the results of the excavations in her area and in the adjacent Area A which laid the basis for a redivision of the Israelite period.

    Ruth Amiran. 2009

  • It might mean anything: defeat, breakdown, the redivision of the world, the destruction of the Party!

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • In sharp contrast to what had happened in Mexico, the larger oil companies not only adapted to the redivision of rents but also established a successful working relationship with the Acción Democrática during its time in power.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • In sharp contrast to what had happened in Mexico, the larger oil companies not only adapted to the redivision of rents but also established a successful working relationship with the Acción Democrática during its time in power.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • It might mean anything: defeat, breakdown, the redivision of the world, the destruction of the Party!

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Yet as a progressive, I believe that Lantos is betraying his own ideals by promoting an entirely one-sided view of the so-called “reunification of Jerusalem” which, in actuality, was merely its redivision, and is more so doing Israel little service by failing to act as an impartial broker, as is a necessary precondition to negotiating “a peaceful, two-state solution to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.”

    With all due respect, Mr. Lantos, you’re wrong about Jerusalem | Jewschool 2007

  • It's because of Fox's redivision of the ratings pie that a later series like the WB's (and then UPN's) Buffy the Vampire Slayer could qualify as buzzworthy despite never coming close to cracking the Top Twenty in the Nielsen ratings.

    The Murdoch Touch 2005

  • It's because of Fox's redivision of the ratings pie that a later series like the WB's (and then UPN's) Buffy the Vampire Slayer could qualify as buzzworthy despite never coming close to cracking the Top Twenty in the Nielsen ratings.

    The Murdoch Touch 2005

  • A redivision of Jerusalem is and ought to be a non-starter.

    With all due respect, Mr. Lantos, you’re wrong about Jerusalem | Jewschool 2007

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