Sentence examples for divisive affair from inspiring English sources
But Taft and conservative Republicans controlled the powerful state organizations and the Republican National Committee, and when the Republicans gathered at their national convention in Chicago in June 1912 it proved a bitter, divisive affair.
Jan Martel, the president of the federation, said the agreement ended an affair that had become "divisive" and "polarizing".
Amidst intense speculation that the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which is officially in charge of the former president's affairs, wanted him to stay out of the divisive campaign, Mr Mandela surprised observers by sharing public platforms with Mr Zuma and Mandla, a possible sign of the grandson's influence over the nonagenarian.
They advised him to soften his stance on the war and encouraged him to shift his focus from foreign affairs to domestic policy in order to avoid the divisive war and peace issue.
Wayne Bridge said he would not play for England's World Cup team this year in the wake of his teammate John Terry's reported affair with Bridge's former girlfriend, saying his presence could be divisive.
Marc Laffineur, Mr. Sarkozy's veterans affairs minister, said the ceasefire date of March 19 was a divisive one for the French that revived "deep wounds from an unhappy page of French history".
Yet he remains a divisive figure, thanks largely to a number of off-field controversies, particularly an alleged affair with a team-mate's ex-girlfriend that cost him the England captaincy in 2010.
Mrs. Clinton was going to paint Mr. Giuliani as divisive and undignified, temperamentally unsuited for the Senate, and profoundly uninterested in national and international affairs, her advisers said.
The Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman, Alistair Carmichael, said the spike in hate crime was due "to the nasty, divisive European referendum campaign".
And strikes are divisive.
