Indeed, we have seen more than one zhongjian ren successfully deal with divisive disagreements.
To find a contemporary analogue, we should look at our most bitter and divisive political disagreements: the abortion wars, or — especially recently — the ongoing arguments over gun regulation.
The short, unsigned opinion obscured what was likely a divisive behind-the-scenes disagreement.
Sometimes people disagreed, Day said, but disagreement never devolved to divisive argument.
One of the greatest privileges of life in a healthy democracy is that politics becomes relatively unimportant, free from the most divisive moral questions and open to honest disagreement.
The Scottish National party Westminster group leader, Angus Robertson, was one of the first to challenge her record directly in a brief speech registering his party's "profound disagreement with her socially and economic divisive policies which were particularly opposed in Scotland and Wales".
That Congressional Republicans and the president cannot even agree on the status of these critical trade agreements reflects just how toxic and divisive their relationship is, anchored largely in fiscal policy disagreements.
It seems the world knows no rest: Islamic terror rearing its ugly head and in the most gruesome of manners in Europe and beyond, Turkey morphing from a democracy into an autocracy, divisive election campaigns emphasize once more our differences, highlighting our disagreements..
Just as the fight over the gun bill pivoted on a single policy disagreement — the question of keeping records on background checks — single divisive issues like whether or not immigrants here illegally should be given a pathway to citizenship can undermine other components to legislation on which there is broad agreement.
Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday unveiled a series of policy options to overhaul the nation's health-care laws, but substantial disagreements remained even as leaders aimed to conclude their perilous and divisive effort as soon as later this month.
