This divisive action by the municipalities was a product of their newly acquired vitality under the constitution, but it also reflected their resentment against centralized authority in Guatemala.
"Acting by executive order on an issue of this magnitude would be the most divisive action you could take," Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida wrote in a letter to the president this week.
Probably the most malicious, divisive action of the last century was the impeachment of President Clinton by House Republicans.
Key emergent themes were 'moral tensions around acceptability'needeed for incentives', 'goals', 'collective or divisive action' and 'monitoring and proof'.
Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, said Mr Trump's appeal for unity, after a year of "divisive actions, petty insults and disgraceful race-baiting... ring hollow".
Jon Piechowski, a spokesman for the American Embassy in Haiti, said that while Haiti's government had the right to decide on the timing, "what Haiti needs right now, coming out of a prolonged first round of elections, is a period of calm, not divisive actions that can only distract from the vital task of forming a legitimate and credible government".
The UC Irvine student council request for the university to withdraw investments in firms that contribute to settlement construction in the disputed territories of the West Bank is another in a long line of misguided and divisive actions that do nothing to further the cause of peace between Israel and Palestine.
At President Trump's rally in Florida on Wednesday night, the state's Republican candidate for the Senate, Gov. Rick Scott, took the stage to thank the president for his help in recovering from a pair of hurricanes, avoiding Trump's more divisive actions.
Jones never mentions Roy Moore in the ad, but the spot is clearly a subtle dig at his Republican opponent, who is known for divisive actions and rhetoric.
Jones never mentions Roy Moore in the ad, but the spot is clearly a subtle dig at his Republican opponent, who is known for divisive actions and rhetoric.
There is also a wide degree of agreement about the need for moratoria on both sides where divisive actions are concerned".
