(v. t.) To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
(v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.
(v. i.) To part; to fall asunder; to become separated.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You get no respect from white folk by being disunited," he wrote.
(2) In addition, the data confirm a classic observation: in comparison with intact families, disunited families are underprivileged in relation to living conditions, deficient in relation to psychosocial functioning, and propitious to behaviour problems and delinquent activity.
(3) We have had headlines in the papers, including those more friendly to us, talking of ‘Great Cabinet Shambles – open war between ministers’: ‘A major political mess and comment which has been no less damaging’ … There’s probably no paper which has been a more loyal supporter of this government than the Sunday Telegraph and it spoke last Sunday of a ‘National scandal - not since the chaos which preceded George Brown’s resignation from Harold Wilson’s cabinet has a British government looked so pitifully disunited.’ The affair has brought ‘ridicule on the government at home and abroad’.
(4) In the days when Britannia ruled the waves, the British political tradition was to keep Europe down by keeping it disunited.
(5) The mucus gel is formed by very large and structurally complex glycoproteins perfected by evolution to tease and disunite the scientists engaged in unravelling their secrets.
(6) Disunited parties are parties that the public worry about and I understand that, that’s why we are going to go forward as a united party.” The Labour leader added: “We are not going to look inwards as a party because, frankly, it would be unforgivable.
(7) The continued speculation and uncertainty is allowing our opponents to portray us as dispirited and disunited.
(8) But in his attempt to disunite Europe, I believe that Putin can very well instrumentalise the lack of political stability and economic prosperity ... they see the Balkans as a place where they can use their power to disrupt.” As Putin goes to Budapest for what has become a rare experience – being welcomed by a friendly EU government – the turbine engineer in Paks is aware of the contradiction, but is not bothered by it.
(9) Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, then used the same word to warn of the dangers of a disunited parliament.
(10) Sir Alec did not appear to be a candidate at all, but he emerged because he disunited the party less than any of the others.
(11) As long as such narrow thinking persists, the health and care system is doomed to remain disunited – and to fail.
(12) With the desperately polluted wastelands of industrial north Bohemia to hand and at heart, he challenged the dangerous – and further west, then politically unchallengeable – myth of eternal growth, reminding the west of the dangers of a Europe that continued to be divided, not now by the iron curtain, but between a closed camp jealously guarding its vulnerable prosperity and a group of poor, disunited and less stable countries outside the gates: "One half of a room cannot remain forever warm while the other half is cold."
(13) I predict that this judgement and the passage of the Bill through Parliament will exceed everything that we have seen to date on the issue and the United Kingdom will merely become even more "Disunited".
(14) In addition, it has been established that certain disunited family types represent a considerable risk factor.
(15) Whatever views people have, I think people appreciate that the way I run my party is on the basis of a unified party, not a disunited party, and a party that doesn't engage in all those practices of the past."
(16) By changing the orientation of hospital-based social work from "disabled family member as burden" to "family unit as an ongoing system," the authors have succeeded in helping dysfunctional, disunited families become functional family systems.
(17) Kezia Dugdale: Corbyn win could leave Labour 'carping on sidelines' Read more “The test for Scottish Labour will be in whether we can offer something sufficiently in tune with the thinking of ordinary Scots where they will see a difference in their lives and living standards.” Another old friend, Iain Macwhirter, a journalist, broadcaster and author of Disunited Kingdom about the referendum and the forthcoming Tsunami: Scotland’s Democratic Revolution about the SNP’s landslide in May, said: “Corbyn is the huge black swan that has swum into the constitutional debate.
(18) Arriving at the meeting, Luxembourg’s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, reflected the tone of the day, saying: “We have more need than ever for a united union rather than a disunited kingdom.” But Ireland’s taoiseach, Enda Kenny, tried to help: he delivered Sturgeon’s message, that Scotland hoped to remain an EU member, to leaders on Tuesday, the first day of the summit.
(19) In October 2011, Fox said, he was made “acutely aware” by Mustafa Jalil, the chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council, of how disunited the militias had become.
(20) Miliband will say in a speech at London University: “There is a saying which goes: what does not kill you makes you stronger.” The remarks mark a shift from Miliband’s position last week when he rubbished the suggestion that he was facing dissent by declaring: “I don’t accept that this matter arises.” In a BBC interview Miliband acknowledged that he did face opposition when he warned that disunited parties were always punished by the electorate and said it would “unforgivable” for Labour to turn in on itself.
Sunder
Definition:
(v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.
(v. i.) To part; to separate.
(v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
(v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the British public had been consistently keen for Afghan translators, many of whom had taken significant risks to help British soldiers, to be offered security and protection.
(2) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future believes a generational change has occurred: he hails a "Jessica Ennis generation", one that barely notices race at all.
(3) Unless the NUS changes radically at its national conference in April, there is a risk that it may become terminally sundered from that movement.
(4) On an anecdotal level, politics seems to be sundering friendships on social media platforms such as Facebook as well as in real life.
(5) Which leaves Labour still seeking what the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala calls its "hand grenade", an idea big enough to capture the public imagination once again.
(6) The last century was extremely tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators.
(7) Over at the New Statesman website, Sunder Katwala, a director of Future, a thinktank which focuses on issues of identity and integration, wrote an article also critical of the coverage by some British newspapers but singling out this paper: "Perhaps surprisingly, it is the Guardian's front page which comes uncomfortably close to being the poster front which the murderer might have designed for himself."
(8) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
(9) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
(10) It was organised by the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research and British Future , whose director, Sunder Katwala, is former head of the Fabians.
(11) There are also the ethnic, confessional and cultural divisions that sunder Ukraine, between the Catholic and nationalist west and the Orthodox and often pro-Russian east, also recalling Yugoslavia.
(12) More can always be done, but the campaigner Sunder Katwala was right to note that while in the past football probably introduced many to racism, it has arguably done more than any other part of British society to publicly repudiate racists and fascists in recent years.
(13) The first concerns feminism's purported sundering of the nuclear family and responsibility for a demographic collapse that opens Europe to Muslim colonisation.
(14) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the survey highlighted a national anxiety about immigration to which national politicians needed to respond.
(15) 9.10am: In an interview on the Today programme, George Osborne acknowledged Sunder Katwala's point (see 9.02am) about a couple who earn £40,000 each still getting child benefit, while a family with one person earning £50,000 would lose it.
(16) This one may assume to be due to a mesencephalic parasympathicotonic reaction as the basis for the occurrence of perioral and acro-syndroms after Fischer-Brügge and Sunder-plassmann.
(17) Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Nevertheless, Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the results gave reason to hope that the country was becoming a more tolerant place.
(18) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future draws our attention to an interesting phenomenon which he dubs "the Farage Paradox".
(19) Sunder Katwala, founder of the thinktank British Future and a cheerful enthusiast for the Games, is not worried by the naysayers' grumbling: "Their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness," he says.
(20) The last century was very tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators Kim is probably right to bet that China’s strategic calculus will not soon change.