Sentence examples for a deeply divisive issue from inspiring English sources

Forced demolitions have been a deeply divisive issue in China in recent years.

By choosing a symbolic day for the vote, Mrs. May hoped to whittle down opposition among pro-Brexit lawmakers to her unloved solution on a deeply divisive issue.

But the vote to bring Morocco into the African Union also puts the Western Sahara dispute back in the spotlight — a deeply divisive issue within the organization.

It was an imperfect compromise on a deeply divisive issue, recalled the former South Carolina governor Jim Hodges, a Democrat who signed the flag's relocation into law.

Standing in front of No 10, Mr Blair acknowledged that Iraq had been a "deeply divisive issue", but said he believed the country was now ready to move on.

But the question of how much to improve auto mileage and how fast is a deeply divisive issue, pitting Republicans against Democrats and those who have automobile plants in their districts against those who do not.

He blames a lack of "headspace" in a government concentrating on another deeply divisive issue for the Conservative party, the EU referendum, and thinks that the ostensible reason for the latest delay – the air quality consultation – will conclude, as the airports commission did, that the airport can expand within legal pollution limits.

Mr Mas's announcement adds fresh fuel to the deeply divisive issue of Catalan independence, which enjoys an estimated 45 per cent support inside one of Spain's wealthiest regions.

Like the abortion debate, the very personal and deeply divisive issue of same-sex marriage falls to elected officials and the political process.

Advocating efficiency involves virtually no political risk — unlike measures that do call for sacrifice, such as capping emissions or putting a price on carbon or increasing energy taxes or investing heavily in utility-scale renewable-energy facilities or confronting the deeply divisive issue of global energy equity.

He went on: Not only did Roe not, as the Court suggests, resolve the deeply divisive issue of abortion; it did more than anything else to nourish it, by elevating it to the national level, where it is infinitely more difficult to resolve.