Sentence examples for before the divisive from inspiring English sources

The Pilgrim's Progress was instantly popular with all social classes upon its publication, though it was perhaps the last great expression of the folk tradition of the common people before the divisive effects of modern enlightened education began to be felt.

In the wake of its success, Jaojoby performed at a political rally to an audience of 50,000 partisans of candidate Marc Ravalomanana less than a month before the divisive 2001 presidential elections that nearly resulted in the secession of the island's coastal provinces.

The secretary, DeForest B. Soaries Jr., said he was motivated by the recent release of documents showing that state officials had known that the state police were practicing racial profiling for some time before it became the divisive issue it is today.

But rejecting the legislation could alienate Hispanic voters just before Election Day, and resurrect the divisive fights of the 1990's over immigrants' benefits that hurt Republicans in many immigrant communities.

The USC alumnus, who had been headed to the campus before being blocked by the rally, said he didn't like the divisive campaign Trump had run. .

The divisive figure of Holden Caulfield.

The divisive, Bill and Hillary.

The divisive issue of flag desecration as a form of protest first came before the Supreme Court in Street v. New York (1969).

Yet the divisive story remains ubiquitous.

Unsupervised machine learning was performed using divisive hierarchical clustering with the Divisive Analysis Clustering (DIANA) algorithm and Pearson's correlation as a similarity metric.

Even before any new members were sworn in, or before the contested and divisive presidential election was yet decided, the two parties, for all their talk of bipartisanship, looked like they could be heading for a confrontation over power sharing without skillful negotiations.