Sentence examples for divisive factors from inspiring English sources

This polarizing conflict is identity-related with ethnicity and religion as deeply divisive factors.

The authors believe the change is also being wrought by other, less divisive factors, including more sustainable government forestry practices.

Religion ranks as one of the most divisive factors in the world today.

Chief among those is the centuries-old schism of the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam, though other divisive factors have come to the fore in a week of stunning gains for the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

The gravest divisive factor in French society was religion.

"Rather than calming the waters and setting on a new course that embraced all factions, Ned himself became a divisive factor".

Yet the bill damaged the presidential chances of John McCain, a Republican senator who supports reform.Immigration is likely to prove a divisive factor in some states in the 2008 presidential election.

With Malema at the forefront, the ANC's youth league was certainly the country's most divisive factor".

The rise of China does not have to be a divisive factor of the international community -- on the contrary, it can be a catalyst for a more cohesive global village.

As University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone wrote in a Huffington Post blog last year, one reason the Framers created this "wall of separation between church and state" was that they viewed religion "not as a unifying force, but as a potentially divisive factor that threatened to undermine their goal of forming a more perfect union".

In the original model of response normalization, a shunting type of inhibition was suggested for the biophysical mechanism of normalization because it acts as a divisive factor.