Balkanize
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"How is the concern minimized if Congress says go ahead and balkanize?"

It will balkanize our schools, and we should reject it.

Spanish translations of American patriotic songs do not balkanize society; discrimination does.

Both approaches could balkanize the city and diffuse accountability.

Is the country destined to balkanize into a patchwork of polar-opposite policies?

Critics of the original rights bill had worried that it would balkanize the nation and reduce government power to uphold federal laws in Indian areas.

The bill's critics include those who see it as a race-based scheme to balkanize a racial paradise.

But the point is that this diversity of user experience appears to me to balkanize android as a platform.

Balkanized by race, ethnicity, region and media markets, California's 33 million people no longer share common historical knowledge or unifying myths.

It's to see a family Balkanized when brothers, sisters and in-laws scream at one another over territorial rights to the bathroom.

There is, however, another version of the meaning of diversity for America, one that would reinforce its vibrant cultural center rather than balkanize it.

"He didn't want to balkanize the city," said his press secretary, Colleen Roche.

Opponents of capital controls have said the controls create artificial barriers that tend to balkanize Europe's economy.

Q. You've spoken about the concept of a Dark Net, which would balkanize the Internet.

The fear in Washington is that this would balkanize the Iraqi governing body and produce a fractious group with mixed loyalties.

Opponents say the accords could balkanize the country into regions run by constitutional codes and others ruled by Indian customs.

"Racial gerrymandering, even for remedial purposes, may balkanize us into competing racial factions," she said.

In a place like Westchester, Balkanized by class and wealth, it's not always easy to see, but it plays out more often than is sometimes apparent.

The state's lawyer replied that the the Federal law minimized what would otherwise be a concern about conflicting policies that could "balkanize the various states."

"All it's going to do is kind of balkanize the pro-life battle into 50 individual battles," Mr. Rivet said.

As Justice Thomas's opinion shows, they may not stop short of ideas that could Balkanize the United States.

"This threatens to balkanize the marketplace," Mr. Gants said.

"But instead they've Balkanized the market," Mr. Cassar said.

We're leading the nation toward the future, to save ourselves from being Balkanized in Israel and the territories, to spare us a Yugoslavia-like situation."

"Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it," writes the Economist weekly, and it may soon splinter along geographic and commercial boundaries.

Aren't the consortia self interestedly likely to balkanise into high cost (ie upper and middle class patients) and low cost consortia (i.e older and deprived)?

"We must continue to work towards national unity rather than balkanise our nation along ethnic lines," said the prime minister, Raila Odinga, who is the frontrunner to win the presidency.

By differentiating in a complex fashion its own workforce management from the practices of all other firms, each firm hoped to balkanise the labour market and to tie the well-being of employees to the success of the firm.