Sentence examples for divisive challenge from inspiring English sources

CAIRO — With the preliminary results of a referendum on Egypt's draft Constitution appearing to lean in the Muslim Brotherhood's favor, President Mohamed Morsi's now faces his most divisive challenge yet as he attempts to implement difficult economic reforms at a time of widening unrest.

Now that the Court potentially faces a less daunting but still divisive challenge regarding the death penalty, another book may shape the way the Justices view the constitutional issue.

Beaten in 1980 by Michael Foot to succeed Callaghan, he only narrowly (50.4% to 49.6%) fought off a divisive 1981 challenge for the deputy's job by Tony Benn, who had swung left.

It is possible that in its deliberately divisive, aggressive challenge to any Muslim not willing to actively support it, IS is sowing the seeds of its own destruction.

This is a helpful quality to have in a city known mainly for its municipal controversies -- a school system that seems to teeter ever on the brink of insolvency, and a divisive lawsuit challenging segregation in housing and education.

But utopianism is an academic parlour game precisely because it can be divisive, entertaining and challenging.

While Democrats believe Mr. Obama has gained ground winning over working-class voters after the party's divisive primary fight, challenges remain in persuading some voters in economically depressed reaches of battleground states who have experienced Main Street versions of the Wall Street financial crisis.

The use of animals in scientific research is the most controversial, divisive, and ethically challenging question I face.

Climate change, perhaps the world's greatest challenge, is divisive only in political circles.

We must do more to challenge "regressive, divisive and harmful cultural and religious practices".

And the official opposition is reeling after a ferocious and divisive summer-long leadership challenge.