Sentence examples for divisive speech from inspiring English sources

Richard Di Natale, the leader of the Greens, said Hanson's was an "overtly racist, bigoted, divisive speech".

The 1984 Brighton bomb forced Margaret Thatcher to tear up what would have been the most divisive speech of her premiership, in which she planned to accuse not only militant miners but the entire Labour party of being "the enemy within" and part of an "insurrection" against democracy.

Low points at past conventions, like the empty chair next to Clint Eastwood at the 2012 Republican convention and Pat Buchanan's fiery and divisive speech in 1992, were the result of impulsive decisions, according to several Republicans involved with those gatherings.

On Saturday, he flew to Harrisburg, in central Pennsylvania, where he delivered a campaign-style address that CNN's David Gergen, who has served in four different White Houses, described as "the most divisive speech I have ever heard a sitting President give".

But his highly divisive speech to Congress – boycotted by close to 60 Democratic members who objected to a foreign leader using the Capitol as a re-election platform and pulpit to bully the American president – merely regurgitated information that Netanyahu himself said is easily found on Google.

Among the actions of speech, divisive speech means speaking in a way as to aggravate conflict and divide friends from each other.

It is marred by court packing, judicial intimidation of political opponents and demagogic, divisive speeches, including the frequent inflammatory demonizing of the United States, Venezuela's biggest oil customer.

Last year he earned much criticism for his cranky attitude to AIDS, his reluctance to criticise the violent despotism of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and his racially divisive speeches at home.

The 980 comments underneath the Guardian Australia article about it showed just how divisive her speech had been: some called her "an awakener" and praised her raw honesty, while others called her a "yappy git" and decried it as "a white guilt hissyfit".

Patrick J. Buchanan, the conservative commentator whose Republican primary challenge and divisive convention speech weakened the first President Bush's campaign for re-election in 1992, is publishing a book excoriating the second President Bush over the invasion of Iraq, just in time to grab a share of the limelight at another Republican convention.

While the Internet is filled with all sorts of awful stuff, in its darkest corners, the mainstream reach of platforms like Facebook and YouTube puts them squarely in the political firing line for all sorts of content issues — from political disinformation to socially divisive hate speech.