Sentence examples for divisive effects from inspiring English sources

It is also far from straightforward, particularly when it comes to the divisive effects of the Pankhurst family on the movement they led.

By establishing a pledge to be honoured by all employers, we could tackle exploitation and establish enforceable collective standards applicable to all, bringing an end to the casualisation and undercutting that has such damaging and divisive effects.

Jon Meyer, the school's co-principal, said the administrators chose loose standards to allow older students to express themselves while minimizing the potentially divisive effects of dress, like designating gang affiliation or economic differences.

When Mr. Gessen invited questions from the crowd, a young woman said she supported Occupy but was worried about the divisive effects of the rhetoric pitting the "99 percent" against the "1 percent".

There will be no shying away from the tough issues: the influence of those who twist faith into ideology; the cultural attitudes that exclude women from mainstream society; the impact of foreign policy on domestic affairs; and, vitally, the divisive effects of the catastrophic failure of state education in many parts of urban Britain.

And rather than lamenting the crises of capitalism for their socially divisive effects, Marx hailed them, since each new crisis meant another nail in the coffin of a system which extracts "surplus value" in the form of profit from the people who actually produce it.

Professor Kaufman argues that fraternal groups actually had a divisive effect on American society.

Smith also worried about the divisive effect that economic specialisation would have on human relationships.

But Jones said he had received "a stack of correspondence" from people concerned about the divisive effect of a plebiscite on marriage equality as proposed by the Coalition.

The political scientist Daniel Hopkins shows that a sudden change in the racial and ethnic composition of a community may have a particularly divisive effect.

Also, with cars often criticised for their depersonalising and divisive effect on urban life, this atomisation could increase all the more if they are simply replaced by driverless versions.