Sentence examples for profound divide from inspiring English sources

Critics dismiss these efforts as mere political posturing, an effort to obscure the profound divide on abortion's morality and legality.

With a single phrase implying his opponents are heartless, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas plumbed a profound divide between his views on illegal immigration and those of many grass-roots conservatives, who up to now have been the core of his support for the Republican nomination.

Porter underlines the point that a profound divide between mobile herder and sedentary farmer is a theoretical construct and not an essential construct, as raising plants and animals has been recognised as integrated elements from the origins of farming (as discussed for Harris' volume, above).

She insists that African-American families getting shut out of home ownership are problems for "all of us," but the "us" reveals a subtle but profound divide.

There is a profound divide in Egypt's society, not yet a full-fledged civil war, but close to it, where the protagonists are not cliques of rival officers, but millions of civilians with deep convictions about the future of their country.

Increasingly, the most profound dividing line in the United States is class rather than race.

As with all clichés, there are always deeper, more profound divides revealed in spurts of intimate contact (or skillful eavesdropping).

In so doing they were reinforcing the idea of a profound racial divide that was essentially European, not Aboriginal.

Analytical Marxism represents a break with conventional Marxist theorizing precisely in its rejection of the view that there is a profound methodological divide between Marxism and bourgeois social science.

The electoral map attested to the country's profound sectional divide, as Hancock carried every state that had belonged to the Confederacy as well as the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.

Indeed, underneath them is one of the most profound questions dividing all politics: whether we should keep on chasing growth indefinitely – so that each generation may be richer than the last, in perpetuity – or whether we should start modelling for ourselves a future of no growth, where generations reap different rewards, of leisure or community or peace.