(1) Abortion has always been a divisive issue.

(2) That politician is a divisive influence at meetings.

(3) Private education is often regarded as socially divisive.

(4) The strike was a divisive issue in the community.

(5) He believes that unemployment is socially divisive.

(6) The Vietnam war was an extremely divisive issue in the US.

(7) He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.

(8) Reality is more divisive for both nations.

(9) Meanwhile the performance-related pay proposals are destructive and divisive.

(10) The line is too rigid, too divisive.

(11) The abortion issue is an even more divisive issue between sisters.

(12) The more divisive issue was the old question of an election under united Coalition leadership.

(13) He employed a mediation model that eliminated the divisive win-lose element from arguments and substituted the goal of clarification.

(14) More and more, we are drawn to the divisive spat at the expense of the thoughtful insight.

(15) But more important, and certainly more divisive, than such occasions was the endlessly controversial and emotionally potent question of precedence.

(16) The potentially most divisive argument will be about who should be in charge during the dangerous period ahead.

(17) He fails to persuade Hindus to repudiate the divisive and unjust social caste system.

(18) At every turn friendship is violated by the divisive image, an image which serves to predict and to explain.

(19) Ceremonies have been more divisive in character than any other part of ritual or theory.

(20) The language needed to describe unity is itself divisive, each word an island proclaiming its difference from every other.

(21) This country still had a deeply oppressive, unequal and divisive political system.

(22) The longer he resists the pressure for change, the more divisive and dangerous will be his efforts to suppress it.

(23) It was egalitarian and free from the weakening and divisive influence of the Roman world and of urban society.

(24) The charge is that exclusive concentration upon the personal can, in its effects, be socially divisive.

(25) The Scandinavian welfare states assume agreement over issues which can be highly divisive in many parts of the world.

(26) The introduction of grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges is without question divisive, leaving local authority schools as poor relations.

(27) The history they have actually experienced has been much more divisive.

(28) Aside from the dismal academic record of ability grouping, it has a divisive social consequence as well.

(29) Yet the finer details needed to implement this idea in the context of international trade have proven contentious and divisive.

(30) Anti-debt groups in the South are aware of the divisive effect of selective and exclusionary debt relief proposals.

(1) This country still had a deeply oppressive, unequal and divisive political system.

(2) He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.

(31) Four questions for corporate finance One man's efficient, interconnected global market is another man's arbitrary and nationally divisive casino.

(32) The formalization of learning was not only unnecessary and inhibiting, but politically divisive.

(33) There is no long-term advantage in avoiding contentious and divisive issues.

(34) Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in America.

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(35) In a post-industrial information economy, the differences become more pronounced and more divisive as the length and necessity of schooling increase.

(36) George Deukejian urged the candidate to steer clear of the issue, which he considers divisive.

(37) Since Bakke, the Court has continued to be deeply fragmented on this divisive issue.

(38) This dependence upon parental support, though necessary if schools are to survive, is socially divisive.

(39) For one to sue another would have been a divisive act not easily tolerated.

(40) With a membership deeply divided in its views, will a politicised curriculum be divisive?

(41) Among evangelical Christians, Graham is known for avoiding divisive rhetoric.

(42) As was explained in the previous chapter, the architecture of upper-class housing itself became increasingly divisive.

(43) He predicted that devolution would be divisive and questioned the very motives behind the policy.

(44) The strike became a divisive issue in the community, turning neighbors against neighbors and even relatives against relatives.

(45) His divisive politics drove a wedge into the organization.

(46) Berninger's lyrics, though tonally divisive, are incredibly engaging.

(47) All these acts are divisive and therefore impermissible.

(48) A referendum would be divisive.

(49) Yet there's little sense of the outside world, the human cost, or the ripple effect, of divisive policies. Here is a movie that gives us Thatcher without Thatcherism.

(50) The voice of Roger Chapman - pitched somewhere Noddy Holder and Robin Gibb - remains one of the most divisive in all pop.

(51) Is ( sub - national ) ethnic identity exclusive and divisive vis - a - vis national cohesiveness and national identity?

(52) Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething in America?

(53) All this can lead to divisive family arguments to which guilt is a major contributor.

(54) Mr Taylor still enjoys support in his home country , where his trial remains divisive.

(55) Mr Samak, abrasive and uncouth, may prove an even more divisive prime minister than Mr Thaksin.

(56) Whereas he once said he would unite the country, he has been deliberately and destructively divisive.

(57) Damascus, the capital of Syria (Aram), was a divisive force in the ancient world, known for its ruthlessness and treachery.

(58) Another distinction often made in the literature of numerical taxonomy is that between divisive and agglomerative approaches.

(59) This bill would be not just divisive but even less enforceable than current laws.

(60) "Inequality is divisive, and even small differences seem to make an important difference," Professors Wilkinson and Pickett note.

(61) "It would be ambiguous to hide or minimize what we believe, " he said. "It's not meant to be divisive or polemical."