Sentence examples for a divisive debate from inspiring English sources

"We shouldn't be having a divisive debate at this time.

After a divisive debate, the Confederate flag atop the South Carolina Statehouse has come down.

In 2007 the minority Liberal government of Jean Charest almost fell during a divisive debate about such issues.

The legislation comes as Canada's neighbours to the south are in the grips of a divisive debate over transgender rights.

But the possibility of even limited American deployments there has plunged the political establishment in Moscow into a divisive debate.

Now, cruise ships and their day-tripping passengers are at the crux of a divisive debate over Key West's identity and its path to the future.

Averting a potentially divisive debate in the Legislature, Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, signed an executive order mandating shots of the Merck vaccine Gardasil as protection against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, starting in September 2008.

The Senate began what might be an emotional, divisive debate on banning a procedure that critics call a partial-birth abortion.

But after a long, divisive debate, Los Angeles finally voted to push forward with a contract that will place 150 public pay toilets on city streets, paid for with sales of advertising.

But there are several hurdles: With most voters fretting about the dour state economy and a budget crisis, the next governor may be uneager to plunge into a potentially divisive debate about same-sex marriage.

But he openly demonstrated different expectations for the measures as Washington wages a bitterly divisive debate over the role of guns in society.