The continued speculation and uncertainty is allowing our opponents to portray us as dispirited and disunited.

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No Chinese in the world will stand a disunited China, or breakaway of Taiwan.

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And this is an aim that the government, disunited on everything else, will find it fairly easy to unite behind.

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Having never really recovered from the defeat of their last Prime Minister Romano Prodi, the left-of-centre opposition here has been disunited and ineffective.

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But there is little in Mr Voronin's economic programme to suggest that a reunited Moldova would live any better than a disunited one.

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With the two other union bodies falling into line with the government and the centre-left a disunited rabble, Mr Cofferati has become the strongest voice opposing government policy.

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But the beleaguered Jews were disunited too: secular, socialist, non-Zionist Jews like him, with ardent Zionists and communists, all bickering over tactics at the edge of the abyss.

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Even after the embarrassing playout of the Obama-invented Great Sequester Game, after the fiasco of the president's Fiscal Cliff Game, conventional wisdom among Democrats holds that disunited Republicans will be routed in the 2014 midterm elections, leaving an open field for the president's agenda in the final two years of his term.

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