The models provoked wildly divergent reactions, foretelling a divisive decision-making process for the years ahead.
Victor Homola (NYT) TURKEY: ISLAMIC PARTY'S FATE -- The highest court sidestepped a potentially divisive decision and granted more time to the Islamic-oriented Virtue prepareo prepare a defense against accusations it should be closed for plotting to undermine the secular government.
"Our clear and united message to Caerphilly council is we demand fairness for all and we will accept nothing less than a rescinding of this unequal and divisive decision".
Citizens United is another matter: it is easily the most divisive decision issued by the Roberts court and so one from which he may have drawn lessons.
Before the meeting on Thursday, the bipartisanship effort will face its first potentially divisive decision: where to find breakfast tacos worthy of discerning Texas taste buds.
Mr. Blair's decade in office would be marked by his momentous — and divisive — decision to go to war in Iraq alongside George W. Bush, and by his remaking of the Labour Party in a more centrist, Clintonian incarnation.
The Episcopal Church approved the election of its first openly gay bishop tonight, reaching the historic and divisive decision after rejecting accusations of sexual misconduct against him that had suddenly halted the vote on Monday.
The justices gave no hint of a reason for the unprecedented late-night release -- whether to avoid pushing Florida over the midnight "safe harbor" deadline for immunizing its electors from Congressional challenge, or perhaps out of fear that the explosive and highly divisive decision might leak overnight if the court waited until morning to announce it.
In this engrossing memoir the former British prime minister traces his political ambitions and principles, and assesses his role in shaping recent historical events: the remaking of the Labour Party, the power-sharing agreement in Northern Ireland and the divisive decision to go to war in Iraq.
But the emotional and wildly divergent reactions they provoked foretell a painful and divisive decision-making process ahead.
WASHINGTON — In a case that carried echoes of two of its most divisive decisions in recent years, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that black firefighters in Chicago did not miss a deadline to argue that the city used an employment test in a way that disproportionately hurt their chances.
