Sentence examples for divisive trial from inspiring English sources

Both suggested that General Pinochet, 84, could still face criminal charges in Chile, although it is hard to imagine either pushing very hard for a divisive trial.

Some of his aides have reportedly told local reporters that it would be convenient for Chile's faltering economy if the country was spared a divisive trial.

If Mr. Clinton genuinely wishes to move ahead with the nation's business, he must do his part to secure an end to this matter short of impeachment and a potentially long and divisive trial in the Senate.

Many hope Nato membership will end the tumultuous east-west struggle in Montenegrin politics, but the divisive trial of the accused plotters starts this week, and the country remains in political crisis.

The amnesty, suggested by Mr. Noboa, eliminates the need for what was expected to be a politically divisive trial of General Mendoza, above, who has said other senior military commanders were involved in the plot but refused to identify them.

Sadly, our church is once again being led down the path of a costly and divisive trial by a pastor who chose to disregard the prayerful and consistent teaching of our church that Christian marriage is the holy union of one man and one woman.

As he had expected, he was sentenced to death in one of the most divisive trials in French history.

The commission was created as a way for this country to come to grips with its gory past without resorting to expensive and politically divisive trials.

The divisive Hiss perjury trial and the McCarthy era of suspicion might have had a far different impact on American society, says Moynihan, if government agencies had not kept secrets from one another as a means of shoring up their power.

The characters in her 2010 debut Black Water Rising are living through the rightwing revivalism of the Reagan years but feel secure in the victories of the civil rights era; we, though, know that the racially divisive OJ Simpson trial and Clarence Thomas supreme court confirmation hearings lie ahead.

Mr Taylor still enjoys support in his home country, where his trial remains divisive.