Sentence examples for divisive ideas from inspiring English sources

"There is resistance to these divisive ideas among both the Hutu and the Tutsi in the population.

While Wilders's party made its name through divisive ideas such as a tax on Muslim headscarves, a favourite SP slogan reads: "There's enough to go round for everyone".

He urged the city to unite around the proposal, one of the most divisive ideas the mayor has pushed in his second and final term, which is scheduled in 21 months.

The new Arab media and social media proved to be just as capable of transmitting negative and divisive ideas and images as they had been at spreading revolutionary ones.

Major Garrett described the irony of the situation neatly in his recent National Journal article, in which he noted that Democrats had come to embrace Republican positions on the merits of preserving Bush-era tax cuts for most Americans, while Republicans had quietly ditched such distinctive and divisive ideas as the part-privatisation of Medicare state healthcare for the elderly.

Even for French politicians, those are divisive ideas, especially for that majority who, when it comes to what ex-President George Bush once called "the vision thing", would prefer to sit on the fence.This week's fence-sitter is President Jacques Chirac.

Extending unemployment benefits was a divisive idea, with 44 percent saying it was a good idea and 39 percent saying it was a bad idea.

It knows that this larger union would become ungovernable unless moves begin toward Mr. Fischer's federative United States of Europe, but the end of the nation state in places like France or Britain is a deeply divisive idea.

That is to say, Jacques Chirac's notion of global governance by self-designated "equals" of America, like Europe or Russia, which Mr. Sarkozy denounced in 2006 as a divisive idea creating new oppositions among nations rather than cooperation.

Less severe laws would be imposed on Sunni women, but only because the draft constitution also embraces the divisive idea of having separate systems of family law in the same country.

Maggi Dawn: The call for peace at the heart of most religions contrasts with the way they behave as competing communities Alan Race: Without trust we cannot talk about God, but to build trust we must avoid trying to convert or lecture people Mehdi Hasan: Muslims must shun the divisive idea of a marketplace of religions which all compete for believers.