The Scottish government had originally ruled out publishing a draft constitution until after a yes vote and the 2016 Scottish election, to avoid complex and divisive disputes between different interest groups and lawyers.
He has proved wary, however, of bogging down his broader agenda in divisive disputes about torture, and he has successfully pressed most Congressional Democrats to oppose calls for a national commission on the Bush administration's interrogation and surveillance programs.
An ABC news report broadcast at the time gives a glimpse of how divisive the dispute was.
The appointment of either one would sidestep a potentially divisive factional dispute, would look forward rather than backward, and unify the party behind a progressive leader.
Another Croat issue concerns titles, a problem similar to the divisive land disputes on Cyprus that have driven down the real estate market on that divided island.
[A1.] The public face of The Cleveland Clinic, its outspoken cardiology chairman Dr. Eric Topol, is leaving for academia following a divisive year-long dispute with the clinic's chief executive, Dr. Delos Cosgrove.
It could have been even more damaging to the Government if MPs had pointed out that recrimination over who is and who is not "a terrorist sympathiser" is the sort of divisive and over-heated dispute that Islamic State likes to provoke through its atrocities.
In the heat of dispute about a divisive case on affirmative action, it is understandable that Roberts bristled at being called out of touch with reality.
"The publicity given to this matter in dispute has been divisive and unfair" and has "brought shame upon the synod," the letter said.
