Sentence examples for a difficult and divisive from inspiring English sources

Drawing a clear line about when an abortion can be performed is a difficult and divisive problem.

Opposition to the same-sex-marriage law — the result of a difficult and divisive battle, in which the minister did not back down — has, in some ways, melded with a larger sense of threatened national identity and anti-immigrant sentiment.

"What I now see is that even if we get the reform through – which will be a difficult and divisive process, although essential – I am probably not the best person to pick up the pieces following the inevitable discord".

"I had already decided that if no reform was possible I was going to leave anyway this summer, a position I had shared with a number of colleagues," said Dyke. "What I now see is that even if we get the reform through, which will be a difficult and divisive process although essential, I am probably not the best person to pick up the pieces following the inevitable discord".

The Newry and Armagh Ulster Unionist assembly member said: "However, after careful reflection, I have decided that a potentially difficult and divisive leadership election is neither in the interest of the party nor indeed the wider electorate.

It has so far proved too difficult and divisive to write a permanent constitution for the post-Mubarak era.

Without any odds-on favorite, then, Republican voters will spend most of next year sorting through some difficult and divisive questions about where the party is headed, in a way they haven't really had to do in decades.

The paralysis is contributing to a rise in violence, and it is severely complicating negotiations on the most difficult and divisive question hanging over the country: Whether to ask the United States to keep a contingency force here after the scheduled withdrawal of American troops at the end of the year.

Uncovering the truth, and determining individual culpability, has proved difficult and divisive.

Yet, given intense opposition to further fiscal and political integration, progress, if it is to occur, will entail difficult and divisive negotiations.

And the remedies, far from being bland matters of consensus, raise some of the most difficult and divisive questions about work, family life, law and social policy.