The phrase "a divided response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where opinions or reactions are split among a group of people.
Example: "The survey results showed a divided response among participants regarding the new policy changes."
Alternatives: "mixed reaction" or "split opinion".
However his choice of photos drew a divided response from Twitter users.
Starring David Bowie as an alien with phenomenal powers who arrives on earth, this attracted a divided response.
Westchester County Executive Andrew P. O'Rourke, Mr. Cuomo's Republican opponent in the upcoming gubernatorial election, also elicits a divided response from environmentalists.
PAGE A17 MIXING GUNS AND PARKS A proposal to allow visitors to carry loaded, concealed weapons in some national parks, wildlife refuges and monuments has brought a divided response.
A Divided Response The Democratic-controlled Legislature, which had assumed that Mr. Romney was cozy with the state's corporate executives, was both taken aback and thrilled by the onslaught.
After "Female" was released, there was a sharply divided response on social media.
A puny, divided response has emasculated the West, which he thinks is bent on weakening and encircling Russia.
(I cannot help thinking of George Herbert's meditation on the gravestones that are decomposing even as he tries vainly to read their inscriptions: "What shall point out them,/When they shall bow, and kneel, and fall down flat/To kiss those heaps, which now they have in trust?" ["Church Monuments"].) The prospect of retirement draws a similarly divided response.
The Blessing has provoked a more divided response.
If European officials were accused of lacking ambition last November, when they first suggested spending €5 billion to kick start the economy of the world's largest trading bloc, their impasse four months later over the plan has become a symbol of a weak and divided response to the global financial crisis.
Much of the novel consisted of Sassoon's conversations with the psychologist WHR Rivers, exploring the divided response of a patriotic and anti-pacifist young soldier to the madness of trench warfare.
