Sentence examples for in a divisive from inspiring English sources

Then, he watched Lehman come perilously close to falling apart in a divisive power struggle.

None of that had happened in Los Angeles and, consequently, it resulted in a divisive situation.

She defeated Rudd by 71 votes to 31 in a divisive party leadership ballot last year.

Bo later fell in a divisive scandal following accusations his wife murdered a British businessman in 2011.

"What does the word mean to you?" "Trolling," he says, "is the use of rhetoric in a divisive manner.

And with such a tailwind, it is extraordinary how the League remains stuck in a divisive politics based on personal grievances that go back nearly four decades.

But the possibility of even limited American deployments there has plunged the political establishment in Moscow into a divisive debate.

Mrs. Clinton's opponent in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama, said in an interview that the welfare overhaul had been greatly beneficial in eliminating a divisive force in American politics.

Although billed as a necessary step to protect the institution of marriage and "traditional" families, it is in fact a divisive exercise in wedge politics.

While Iran played a pivotally important role in forcing a divisive Maliki aside in Iraq, it has spent huge sums keeping Assad in power, despite his consistent failure to unite his people.

In such a divisive time that we live in, the hardest thing we can do is to show compassion to those in opposition to our beliefs.