The phrase "a divisive question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a topic or issue that tends to create disagreement or conflict among people.
Example: "The debate over climate change policies is often seen as a divisive question that splits public opinion."
Alternatives: "a contentious issue" or "a polarizing topic".
Just how active the cartel is north of the border is a divisive question.
It's a divisive question where police officers at London's Notting Hill carnival are concerned.
Whether the group's character matters to Barrett's potential candidacy for the Supreme Court is a divisive question.
In real life, coming out or not – much like True Blood's civil rights allegory– is a divisive question: is the pop-cultural fascination with vampires an opportunity to build alliances and enlighten the world?
If they put it behind them and they think I'm the Democrat who could best be the mayor, I find this is a divisive question and quite off point in terms of what this city really needs, which is to rebuild the economy and educate our children.
But Green MP Francois-Michel Lambertoldld the BBC that smacking was a "divisive question" and one that the government would most likely steer clear of while voters are "expecting results on the economy".
The extent to which his blackness made the police careless or lazy is not an idle or a gratuitously divisive question.
The proposed shift in policy has been portrayed in news accounts mostly as a kind of trial balloon, floated to gauge sentiment about where scouting might go on a hugely divisive question.
Away from the floor debate, Democrats continued searching for a compromise on the divisive question of whether to create a new government-run health insurance plan.
Neither party had taken a position on the divisive question during the campaign, but selecting a permanent capital was high on the list of the new legislature's orders of business.
It was in this spirit that HuffPost posed a new (and equally divisive) question: Which way is soda served best?
