And, I'm disheartened to see the way this concept was twisted into something sinister and untrue, then ultimately dropped because it was deemed too divisive.
Michigan's Gov. Rick Snyder, who vowed not to touch so-called right-to-work laws that even he deemed too divisive, later flip-flopped and rammed such a law through.
The Republican minority has already threatened to filibuster whoever President Obama might nominate; someone like Wood, who has ruled on hot-button issues like abortion, might be deemed too divisive a nominee.
In Michigan, some lawmakers have pressed for right-to-work legislation, even though Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, has deemed the matter divisive and has said, again and again, that he does not want such legislation to reach his desk this year.
Curran said that 92Y will reserve the right to take down any submissions deemed hateful or divisive.
He was deemed a visionary — a divisive innovator in the sometimes drearily bureaucratic world of French education — but he was also something of an autocrat.
Yet within Saudi Arabia, Prince Walid is already a divisive figure, either applauded or deemed immoral for his vocal support of the right of women to drive or for the content of his Arab entertainment television network Rotana.
It includes a divisive element that Mr. Bush had deemed essential: legal immunity for the phone companies that cooperated in the National Security Agency wiretapping program he approved after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The list was clearly influenced by the divisive Congressional race in upstate New York this fall, when conservative activists deemed the Republican nominee for the seat, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, too liberal and instead supported a third-party candidate, Douglas L. Hoffman.
