Sentence examples for a divisive idea from inspiring English sources

Extending unemployment benefits was a divisive idea, with 44 percent saying it was a good idea and 39 percent saying it was a bad idea.

That is to say, Jacques Chirac's notion of global governance by self-designated "equals" of America, like Europe or Russia, which Mr. Sarkozy denounced in 2006 as a divisive idea creating new oppositions among nations rather than cooperation.

It knows that this larger union would become ungovernable unless moves begin toward Mr. Fischer's federative United States of Europe, but the end of the nation state in places like France or Britain is a deeply divisive idea.

After initially blasting the shirt as an "incredibly insensitive stupid divisive idea" and threatening to terminate his gym's just-announced partnership with Reebok if it wasn't removed from the company's online portal, Kavanagh later released an expanded statement.

Maggi Dawn: The call for peace at the heart of most religions contrasts with the way they behave as competing communities Alan Race: Without trust we cannot talk about God, but to build trust we must avoid trying to convert or lecture people Mehdi Hasan: Muslims must shun the divisive idea of a marketplace of religions which all compete for believers.

Less severe laws would be imposed on Sunni women, but only because the draft constitution also embraces the divisive idea of having separate systems of family law in the same country.

While Wilders's party made its name through divisive ideas such as a tax on Muslim headscarves, a favourite SP slogan reads: "There's enough to go round for everyone".

While Wilders's party made its name through divisive ideas such as a tax on Muslim headscarves, a favourite SP slogan reads: "There's enough to go round for everyone". But that inclusive message is intended to carry menacing implications for bankers, business and the EU powerbrokers of Brussels.

"There is resistance to these divisive ideas among both the Hutu and the Tutsi in the population.

He urged the city to unite around the proposal, one of the most divisive ideas the mayor has pushed in his second and final term, which is scheduled in 21 months.

The new Arab media and social media proved to be just as capable of transmitting negative and divisive ideas and images as they had been at spreading revolutionary ones.