Sentence examples for divisive struggles from inspiring English sources
But his tenure has also included epic, divisive struggles with Democrats in his legislature; and in a little more than two years as George W. Bush's budget director, the federal budget shifted from a projected surplus into a deep deficit as the economy swooned and Congress turned down his proposals for spending cuts to offset tax cuts.
With his position as a special assistant to the attorney general, Mr. Roberts became engaged in one of the most bitterly divisive struggles of the Reagan revolution -- the effort to develop a new, more conservative approach to civil rights and voting rights, according to documents released by the National Archives.
So if the coalition wants a divisive struggle over "values", fine – bring it on.
Will the Democratic field narrow or will there be a divisive struggle down to the wire?
But as those generations aged out of leadership positions, they were replaced by baby boomers whose formative political experience was more akin to a civil war, a divisive struggle over a handful of issues that we are still fighting about today: race, abortion and women's rights, respect for authority and protection of the environment.
Taken together, these plausible descriptive and normative assumptions yield a state of nature potentially fraught with divisive struggle.
The divisive struggle in the 1990s over the US Army School of the Americas is an example of how difficult it can be to reach common ground, as well as how counterproductive an adversarial relationship between the US military and the human rights community can be.
During five years at the Premier League, starting in the press office and culminating as director of public policy, he compiled an enviable contacts book and enjoyed a front-row seat at football's most recent and divisive power struggles.
Rival battling factions developed within Fatah during 1983, and a divisive leadership struggle developed.
Then, he watched Lehman come perilously close to falling apart in a divisive power struggle.
To defer another potentially divisive leadership struggle, 79-year-old Shimon Peres, a former prime minister and party leader, took over as Labor's temporary chairman.
