Sentence examples for public divides from inspiring English sources

The public divides, in a partisan way, when it comes to assessing ultimate blame for the spill.

"The public divides sharply along party and ideological grounds about the role that government should be playing in trying to reduce the wealth gap and in changing state minimum wage laws," Field Poll founder Mervin Field and Director Mark DiCamillo wrote in a press release for the survey.

The most recent polls have shown a public divided.

A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found the public divided about progress.

The discord with Washington has left the Israeli public divided and perplexed.

Opinion polls in Israel show the public divided on the address to Congress with widespread suspicion that Netanyahu is using it for electoral advantage.

The common thread through nearly all of these unexpected breaks, including Donovan's, is the public divide on whether the sabbatical is necessary, appropriate and worthwhile.

Yet with the public divided over Britain's ties to the bloc, most business leaders prefer a discreet silence to risking criticism.

Support now for same-sex marriage — more than half in favor, about one-third against — is roughly the public divide on the question of public school desegregation in 1954 when the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

When the Smithsonian got itself in hot water a few years ago over an exhibition about the Enola Gay, it faced a new situation: a public divided over the atomic bomb, with the museum expected to mediate the debate.

Karen Cerulo, associate professor of sociology at Rutgers who is an expert on symbolism, has been closely watching Halloween stores and front lawns this year and sees the public dividing into two camps.