With all this going on, the last thing the president needs is more divisiveness over beef.
As a candidate in 2005, he opposed mayoral control, telling the union it "creates more divisiveness, more infighting, more confusion".
"The denial of access to the vast majority will accomplish nothing but more divisiveness," he said.
The new arrangement, however, stimulated more divisiveness; the power of the grand prince of Kraków declined after the reign of Casimir II the Just (1177 94).
"If churches insist on having a leg up in the zoning process," she said, "we're going to have a lot more discrimination claims and more divisiveness".
Still others, including Ms. Rousseff, contend that the ease with which the political elite shunted aside the president will bring more divisiveness and political tumult in Brazil.
If the government fractures and a narrow majority of Shiite parties led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former exile, takes control, the result would be more divisiveness and potentially more violence.
But some members simply wanted the issue to go away as quickly as possible for fear that further debate would foment more divisiveness and damage the organization, which was founded 39 years ago.
Rather than look for more divisiveness – clearly an easy find – we set ourselves the more challenging task of trying to discover what we have in common as a culture.
In the wake of this attack, I don't know if we will be able to talk to each other more now, if we will reach out across the political divide, or if the sides will become further entrenched, if this is the harbinger of more divisiveness.
