to keep control over people by making them disagree with and fight each other, therefore not giving them the chance to unite and oppose you together :
a policy of divide and rule
to keep control over people by making them disagree with and fight each other, therefore not giving them the chance to unite and oppose you together :
a policy of divide and rule
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005