Sentence examples for become divided over from inspiring English sources

The coalition that elected him has become divided over social issues, but cleaning house was perhaps the principal mandate of Francis' papacy, and the current scandal may remind everyone of that — including the Pope.

PAGE A16 New York OPPONENTS OF FRACKING DIVIDED OVER OBJECTIVES With a deadline looming this week for the public to weigh in on gas drilling in New York State, the antifracking movement has become divided over whether its goal should be securing the nation's toughest regulations or winning an outright ban, reflecting how the opposition has hardened since fracking became a statewide issue.

With a deadline looming this week for the public to weigh in on gas drilling in New York State, the antifracking movement itself has become divided over what its goal should be: securing the nation's toughest regulations, or winning an outright ban?

WASHINGTON — In a sharp role reversal, Democrats and Republicans have become divided over whether to extend a federal payroll tax cut enjoyed by working Americans this year, with Democrats leading the charge for the tax break and many Republicans demanding that the cut be paid for if it is extended at all.

But the board became divided over which legislative battles to pursue.

In Thisbe Nissen's novel, OSPREY ISLAND (Anchor, $13), summer preparations at the island's lone hotel are under way and an insular community becomes divided over the fate of a young boy whose alcoholic parents seem ready to come unhinged.

In 1930, the congregation became divided over the need for the Jewish community to hire a shochet to ritually slaughter animals for kosher meat, and over whether the synagogue should hire a Reform or Conservative rabbi.

Progressives have become divided among ourselves over how best to navigate the incredibly rocky shoals in front of us, but we should keep talking with each other and pivoting off each other as we try to improve this bill.

Taekwondo (Korean) - This Hard Style is the national sport of South Korea, and has over the past several decades become divided between those who practice it as an art or a sport and those who practice it as combat training.

Over four weeks, the house appears to have become divided into two groups.

He claimed that such was the controversy over the comments that the Department for Education had become divided, an allegation denied by sources close to Gove.