Sentence examples for divisive tendencies from inspiring English sources

That's because the Republican Party is hoping it can now hide its uglier, crazier and most divisive tendencies.

While Baptists were troubled by divisive tendencies during the 20th century, there was also a tendency toward greater unity and cohesiveness through the Baptist World Alliance.

Over against the divisive tendencies of the outer world, it is the nature of universities to bring people together, as Duke has brought together the Class of 2010: men and women of high promise drawn from every origin and background, from forty-six states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, forty-one countries, and a whopping 1,094 secondary schools.

Heck, I have a few "fans" out there who like to attack me for even writing about it, much less their disfavor that I earn a living helping others transcend some of these disturbing and divisive tendencies.

earlier this month proposed the idea in the wake of the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., to demonstrate commitment to reversing the kinds of divisive political tendencies that many believed had played some part in the violence.

MAHAN ESFAHANI Talented but divisive, with a tendency to disparage his fellow harpsichordists — including Jean Rondeau, who plays at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in March — this chronology-hopping artist pairs selections from Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" with works by George Lewis, Luciano Berio and Tristan Perich at the Miller Theater.

1996's No Code saw the band dive headfirst into their obtuse tendencies, taking the divisive moments of Vitalogy and attempting to make them into an album-length piece.

The ramifications of our tendency to ask divisive questions in the first place are massively amplified in cyberspace, where anonymity and a boundless expanse serve to stoke our primal xenophobia, even as they embolden our stridor.

But at the same time, he adds, Reagan's "political and personal tendencies were integrative, not divisive," and he "mostly sought not to deepen ideological or partisan differences but to transcend them in an appeal to shared assumptions" about "individualism at home and American exceptionalism in the world".

Mr Zeman continues to be a divisive figure, especially on account of his tendency to express his views - which are often at variance with government policy - in colourfully trenchant terms.

In matters of church polity, controversial tendencies that began in the Reformation remained as divisive forces within the ecumenical movement in the 20th century.