Sentence examples for divisive positions from inspiring English sources

Her aim in this pre-campaign period is to present herself as credible, to move away from divisive positions and to re-position herself as a kind of calm, unifying authority.

WASHINGTON--A top adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign said Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has taken "divisive positions" on key social issues.

While I'm not advocating for the RCA to withhold its positions or secretly harbor them behind the public's backs, I am asking for a certain level of sensitivity to be considered when formulating and deciding how to disseminate undoubtedly divisive positions.

Emma Reynolds, the former shadow communities secretary, said: "The idea that there isn't any space between unequivocal support for free movement and Ukip's divisive position is plainly wrong".

If the president had flouted the pro forma sessions to name someone to a less divisive position, like the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which provides internal legal advice, virtually no one outside the administration would be affected by the move, Mr. Elwood said.

But the Republican contender made no mention of his divisive position as one of the richest men in the country paying tax at a rate far below that of most Americans after the release of his tax returns showed he paid just 15% tax on $45m of income over the past two years, mostly from investments.

I fear that your divisive position on this issue at best misunderstands the First Amendment and, at worst, is a blatant attempt to spread Islamophobia for political gain.

Democratic campaigns are using their resources to fund get-out-the-vote efforts and aggressive advertising campaigns linking their Republican rivals to Mr. Trump and his more divisive pronouncements and positions, including his nomination and fierce defense of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

Progress under these conditions requires that, for children to be raised in an equal opportunity and education environment, the discriminatory and divisive gender role position patterns must be changed.

Will he be able to convince the public to take his positions on divisive issues?

But neither indicated that his government was willing to alter positions on divisive issues, like Taiwan and the South China Sea, that have long hamstrung better relations.