Sentence examples for divisive measures from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sweeney has partnered with Mr. Christie to pass several divisive measures that will remake pension systems and hold down property taxes — although not without tension.

But Mr. Nixon won victories on the two most divisive measures, in an unlikely turn for a man who, for the first time in his tenure, faced veto-proof Republican supermajorities in both chambers.

If not, it could be seen as the kind of divisive measure that stokes unrest.Gauging the political beneficiaries of suffering is a crass business.

Senate Republicans backed down today from an effort to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers in a 2001 act, clearing the way for passage of a less divisive measure that would still expand the government's ability to spy on foreign terrorist suspects in the United States.

Some analysts believe that Ms. Quinn is trying to reposition herself as a tougher counterweight to the mayor after collaborating with him so often on countless issues, most notably Mr. Bloomberg's divisive measure to extend term limits for elected officials to 12 years from 8. The Council passed that legislation by a 29-22 vote last month.

Two minutes before midnight, Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat, announced that a deal over Lincoln's divisive measure had been reached.

Democrats will never let divisive, extremist measures like SB1070 see the light of day!

But there's no point using their newfound majority to push through divisive, partisan measures that Obama will surely veto.

He called the bill "a divisive, partisan measure that takes us in exactly the wrong direction".

He was one of 92 hereditary peers allowed to stay in the House of Lords after hundreds were swept out by the Labor government of Prime Minister Tony Blair in a divisive reform measure of 1999.

In the letter, the mayor argued that those changes would accomplish their shared goals, urging Weinstein to drop "a costly and potentially divisive ballot measure campaign".