Sentence examples for divisive history from inspiring English sources

Younger Vietnamese-Americans are understandably less affected by the divisive history.

Mr. Montour, 41, lives on the reserve and knows both how powerful and divisive history can be, even among Mohawks.

As he campaigns to become the nation's first (openly) black president, Barack Obama likes to say that we've begun to put that divisive history behind us.

Despite the Bush administration's desire for a quiet life after the fall of Mr. Milosevic, divisive history won't stop in the Balkans.

Water policy has a long, divisive history in California and the West.

But those who lived here saw instead families and allegiances sharpened by a divisive history.

Yet most public memorials stay mute about the more divisive chapters of history.

But no matter what the logic of their arguments in their own minds, they also want to guard against complacency over the possible return of a law that has had such a divisive and exhausting history.

This Thanksgiving promises to be perhaps the most politically divisive in American history.

The founders were well aware that religion had proved bitterly divisive throughout human history.

"Removing a divisive piece of history is something I would consider supporting".