Sentence examples for divisive on the from inspiring English sources

Warren Gatland began by picking the Ospreys en masse as his first Wales team and they won at Twickenham but in the long run the dynamic at Test level is so different and the demands on individuals and combinations so contrasting that one-club togetherness can be divisive on the grand stage.

Its authors said they hoped that putting a detailed plan on the table would help Mr. Bush in his effort to transform Social Security, a goal that is among the most ambitious and politically divisive on the administration's agenda.

But the deal has proved intensely divisive on the island and the Taiwanese government refused to grant a popular referendum on the issue.

"He's been so divisive on the issue of race," Gohmert told reporters Tuesday night after the speech.

In this perspective, feminist memorializing is considered socially divisive on the basis of gender and therefore harmful by bestowing guilt on all men, irrespective of individual propensity to violence against women.

The areas of silence and those where the texts are not yet fully mature deal with the issues that are most divisive on the global level: The church and gays and lesbians, and women within the church.

The mid-50s and early 60s — the post-Frank Leahy years — had been tough and divisive ones on the South Bend campus; so unsettling that some administrators advocated de-emphasizing the university's most famous asset.

The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren, who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.

While there are many divisive issues on the plate this election year, preventing genocide should not be one of them.

But far fewer want another divisive referendum on the issue in the near future.

Communicating complexity alone has proved a divisive subject on the Network.