Sentence examples for divisive clash from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — In leading his colleagues in a vote on Tuesday to ban the lawmaker-directed spending items known as earmarks, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader and consummate Congressional appropriator, averted a divisive clash within his caucus over the question of joining the new House Republican majority in enacting an earmark "moratorium" for the next Congress.

Democrats had hoped to avoid a divisive clash between Mr. Hoyer, who is closely aligned with more moderate Democrats, and Mr. Clyburn, the senior African-American lawmaker in Congress, who would have a strong base of support in the Congressional Black Caucus.

Add to this the notion that reopening a debate will somehow help us in defining British values, and what we are left with are more bitter and divisive clashes, not less.

The fighting that started between the military and Muslim Brotherhood rapidly turned into divisive clashes between Egyptian citizens.

In laying out for the first time the details of what he wants in the legislation, Mr. Obama set in motion a new round of maneuvering intended to bring a bitterly divisive yearlong clash to a conclusion.

Meanwhile, amid soaring prices, ever-rising unemployment, and a continuing decline in real wages, domestic divisions widen into violent clashes and divisive debates, often over remarkably irrelevant issues.

They may be a wrestling with divisive internal conflicts ("A Clash Between Venture Capital and Private Equity") or benefiting from a broad consensus among leading practitioners ("Private Equity Titans Find Common Ground").

But now the shadow of suicide has slipped into the corridors of modern medicine as a potential drug side effect, where it is creating a scientific debate as divisive and confounding as any religious clash.

Many commanders regarded the selection last summer of Mansoor – a heavy-handed and divisive figure – as a coup, leading to violent clashes between factions.

We must seek solutions to the "clash of ignorances" that breeds this polarized and divisive mentality.

We hear so often of religion as a divisive force, as the cause of wars, as a zero-sum game, a clash of conflicting absolute truths - or make-believes.