The Arabs, who were humiliated by defeat and still bitterly divided, refused to recognize the Jewish state.
In 1972, with public concern about government surveillance of the civil rights and antiwar movements near its peak, a closely divided Supreme Court refused to forbid the Army to monitor public political activities.
Despite no credible argument against it, a divided Congress refuses to reinstate the program.The explanation is a bit complicated: basically, the usual way the federal government subsidises state bonds is by making them tax-exempt, but this conveys unnecessarily high benefits to bond buyers with high marginal tax rates.
Thousands of conservative Anglicans — priests and laymen — on both sides of the High Church Low Church divide still refuse to take Communion from a female priest, and would certainly refuse to take it from any priest ordained by a female bishop.
"The fact is, Washington is a mess, our country is divided, our leaders refuse together to solve problems, and I feel called to service," he said.
The conference is likely to be bitterly divided, with senators refusing to accept a bill that raises the deficit and House members refusing to approve one that does not.
In an alarming ruling earlier this year, a closely divided Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to dismiss a patently unmeritorious libel action against Consumer Reports for a 1988 review that rated the Suzuki Samurai sports utility vehicle "not acceptable".
When George Bush decided last year that he was willing to take America to war to defang Saddam Hussein, he cannot have wanted the build-up to end like this, with a divided Security Council, Turkey refusing to let American forces invade Iraq from its territory, and North Korea using America's preoccupation with Iraq to resume its policy of nuclear extortion.
Yesterday, a divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant the vice president's request for a writ of mandamus blocking discovery in the district court.
Or a divided Congress might just refuse to cooperate.
A divided Alabama Supreme Court has refused to block a lower-court decision that said some felons should be allowed to register to vote.
