"Unfortunately, when you allow demagogues to take over for political and divisive purposes, the American flag gets shredded and burned, steel barricades are hurled and bottles are thrown, injuring police officers and civilians".
At a press event, Matheson told reporters that the effort "had been hijacked in its last stages by those who may use it for divisive purposes and for a specific agenda".
After demonstrators and the police clashed in Brooklyn at the funeral of Mr. Dorismond, the Haitian-American security guard shot in a tussle with a plainclothes officer, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said "demagogues" with "political and divisive purposes" in mind had touched off a melee in which 23 police officers were hurt and 25 arrests were made.
But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state and whom does it serve?
He described the special court as an "expensive and divisive piece of judicial machinery" which served little purpose following the deaths of most of the prominent defendants, and believed that its continuation "could undermine the fragile peace" in Sierra Leone.
Specifically, in the current study we sought to: (i ) compare the gene expression pattern between patient groups with different clinical characteristics; (ii) conversely, assess the clinical characteristics of groups of patients with distinct gene expression patterns identified by a novel diVIsive Shuffling Approach (VIStA) developed specifically for this purpose (see below).
America spends $400 billion–or about 4% of gross domestic product –on its public schools, and for this ton of cash it gets an education system that is divisive, poorly run, politicized and intentionally fragmented for patronage purposes.
He said it was divisive and plays on people's fears and served no educational purpose.
He is a highly divisive figure in Brooklyn due to his support of the Atlantic Yards, but his purpose was to give me one of those proclamations, and I was happy about that.
Hezbollah's participation in the civil war in Syria is highly divisive and unpopular in Lebanon, where many feel it has deviated from its original purpose of fighting Israel and that it has exposed the Shiite community to retaliation.
