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How to use fifth column in a sentence

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It is playing on xenophobia to persuade people there is a fifth column in this country and show that something is being done.
In 1940 they spiralled to a figure above 1,200 in response to national anxieties about the fifth column.
Who needs the fifth column and undercover agents when you have politicians lining up to do the devil's bidding?
In some respects, too much of the fourth estate seems to act like a fifth column in this country.
It is an age-old tactic of fascists to target trade unionists and label them a fifth column or traitors.
It has become nothing short of a national menace, an enemy of this country's interests and a fifth column in time of war.
He feared the activities of a communist fifth column, and enacted draconian laws to restrict free expression and assembly.
They are discriminated against because of fear that they could be a fifth column which would destroy the state from within.
For they stand accused of being a fifth column, a homegrown wing of a global movement bent on terrorising the West.
The fifth column this week is a sad reflection of what journalism has come to.
I want to warn against the fifth column here that tries to corrode our way of life.
Allegations that they may constitute a fifth column are beginning to look increasingly shallow.
They were still viewed as a fifth column liable to join forces with the country's enemies at a moment's notice.
The government used the alliance to label them a fifth column fighting alongside the enemy during a time of war.
Democratic governments played on the fear of a fifth column within in order to bolster the national purpose.
The creation of a potential fifth column within the organization makes the duties of members of the audit committee far more onerous than before, with no relief in sight.
Indeed, they now realise that the foreigners are, in fact, trained and equipped mercenaries despatched by a hostile country to act as its fifth column.
This refugee was a person who could not be trusted because of their feigned conditions, false identities, and suspected links to a fifth column or underworld.
A fifth column has been added to reflect the possibility of acquiring the information.
No country threatened with a loss of sovereignty can permit a fifth column to develop within its borders.
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