He said: "You've got to have some kind of balance in a no campaign to avoid it being polarised into Ukip against the rest of the country.
Another avenue open to Mr Reid would have been to call fresh assembly elections, possibly in October, but this could have polarised the situation even further, given the two parties which gained most in the Westminster poll in June were Sinn Fein and Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists.
Only 10 years previously, dockers had marched in support of the Conservative politician Enoch Powell, and workforces had polarised along racial lines at Mansfield Hosiery Mills in Nottinghamshire and Imperial Typewriters in Leicester.
In his speech, Khamenei also condemned the Israeli prime minister B in yamin Netanyahu 's recent speech to the US Congress which has polarised opinions both in the US and Israel.
Families were carers, you had fatherless families, you had degrees of domestic violence associated with post traumatic stress, you had the pro-conscriptionists and the anti-conscriptionists still deeply embittered and polarised – the shirkers versus those who served.
Reaction to the museum is similarly polarised.
The more Congress is polarised between Ms Pelosi's liberals and Mr DeLay's hardliners, the more Mr Bush can pose as an embodiment of all-American common sense.Ms Pelosi will eventually be obscured by the Democratic presidential candidate.
Two days later Nissho Iwai, another trading house, said its group net profits had fallen by 94% to ¥1.2 billion ($9.6m).In this section The price is wrong Hold the foie gras Swap shop The Wang clan cornered Going soft Helter smelters Taking off, sort of Middlemen in a muddle Onwards and upwards ReprintsThe industry has become polarised.
Political crises have polarised opinions within families, workplaces and communities, and hollowed out the centre.That is why this crisis goes much deeper than previous rounds of political violence, including the bloodshed in May 1992 when a coup leader sent troops out to mow down pro-democracy protesters.
To ensure that light from the display does not create a distracting, blurry image outside the lenslet, Innovega's second trick is to cover the remainder of the lens with a filter that blocks out all light polarised in a particular way.
Its formal aim was to persuade Mr Chavez to agree to early elections in some form, as a means of resolving peacefully the bitter political conflict that has polarised the country.
