Mr. Hirshan said he had heard a chorus of response since the speech, divided evenly between those supportive and those critical.
(Roosevelt, it should be noted, lost the election following his Osawatomie speech, dividing his party and leaving it in the political wilderness).
But I tend to think that, to borrow from the words of another lanky Illinois senator, that a speech divided against itself cannot stand and will not stick.
The result is quickly transcribed speech divided by speaker, delivered quickly and with decent accuracy (there's always a trade-off between turnaround time and how the process is).
The sciences of speech divide into those that are significative of what is known (grammar) and those that are inquisitive about what is not known (logic and rhetoric) (DOS 468).
Drama is playing out in Longmont, where campaign laws thought to prevent corruption by limiting expenditures and contributions is instead corrupting free speech, dividing a community, eating up precious courtroom time and turning the electoral process into a bureaucratic nightmare.
Her public speeches divided reaction: some loved her and some wished she would stay quiet.
It was one of her stream-of-consciousness speeches, dividing the nation into Us (mothers, hunters, the Tea Party Movement, people who love America) and Them (Hollywood hypocrites, animal rightists who are opposed to the swatting of flies, dumb elitist fashion editors, liberals).
The Parks image also echoes President Lincoln's "House Divided" speech—"A house divided against itself cannot stand"—which sought to imagine an America without a race problem.
The instant reaction to the speech was divided along predictable lines.
