Sentence examples for divisive matter from inspiring English sources

In Florida, the issue is not same-sex marriage but another politically divisive matter: President Obama's health care law.

The divisive matter of whether ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab citizens should go into the military or perform national service, punted by Mr. Netanyahu last summer, is also looming.

"True Grit," Mr. Portis's second novel, which was serialized by The Saturday Evening Post and appeared on the New York Times best-seller list for 22 weeks, is actually a divisive matter among Portis admirers.

Supporters portrayed the choice as a historic decision on the biggest civil rights question of this era and as a simple matter of fairness, while opponents said that the bill carried numerous unintended consequences and that Minnesotans needed more time to weigh such a divisive matter.

Frédérique Ries, who negotiated yesterday on behalf of the Parliament's committee in charge of environmental, public health, and food safety (ENVI) issues, says the deal is a "reasoned" solution that will allow the union to make a fresh start on this divisive matter.

We turn to the big, divisive matter: gun-control laws.

Ever since the National Endowment for the Arts became a political lightning rod, the agency has studiously steered clear of financing potentially divisive subject matter.

The book offers no opinion on such divisive matters.

The board, he said, considered the debates over other divisive matters — including "divorce and remarriage, views on evolution, the role of women in church leadership, and whether birth control is acceptable" — and hoped that, just as the various Christian denominations had worked together, despite their differences, to serve the poor, they could work through this as well.

Expanding the rights of women, opening the secondary school curriculum to new courses in technology and English, ending the government monopoly on telecommunications -- changes that are either under study or under way -- are all potentially divisive matters in a society accustomed to rigidity.

Debates over divisive matters of religion and state were intensifying.