How To Use Divisive In A Sentence
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A lot was said during that divisive leadership campaign which cannot be unsaid.
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If you have lost enchantment, you are liable to divisiveness, intolerance, and aggression.
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I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic.
American Coastopia!
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This is rapidly emerging as a deeply divisive political issue, although it has yet to burst into the open.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive.
American Grace
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The 1968 campaign had been divisive as it was fought in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
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Cranmer does not intend to delve into the divisive arguments which confronted the Early Church on the nature of Christ's divinity and his humanity, but to focus on the controversy which has been caused by a statue of Jesus with an erect penis, which is on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.
Cranmer
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Republicans – your pettiness and attack machinery cannot work among the electorates who are intelligent and appreciate the disadvantage of divisive politics where cohesion is needed.
DeMint: Senate could've voted on TSA chief 'months ago'
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The charge is that exclusive concentration upon the personal can, in its effects, be socially divisive.
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The language needed to describe unity is itself divisive, each word an island proclaiming its difference from every other.
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That politician is a divisive influence at meetings.
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Raw politics is making the arrival of boatpeople a divisive issue once more when it shouldn't be, and the Rudd government is as culpable as the Coalition when it comes to emotive catchcries and racist innuendo.
Public Opinion
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Just like in real life, football is divisive in video games.
The Sun
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It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole.
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1. The term backpacker pisses you off so much that you write a long ass blog about why it's a divisive term and tie it in to some wild conspiracy theory involving the government, corporations, media outlets and record labels removing all of the consciousness, creativity and balance from mainstream rap music.
One Year Later AKA Thoughts Of A Subject, Verb And Predicate Felon
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That avenue would be open, that divisive issue would be out there for years to come, and it would not be fixed.
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The bottom line is that the IFA is content to avoid what it considers to be a divisive issue.
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And to be clear, the “good fight” is, instead of accusing flag wavers of being neo-Confederate Klan sympathizers, to convince people of good will that embracing offensive and divisive symbols is counter-productive and hurtful.
Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
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The language needed to describe unity is itself divisive, each word an island proclaiming its difference from every other.
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With Portugal he has been a divisive figure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Teaching American history without stirring accounts of non-white heroes and cultures is irresponsible as well as divisive.
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Aware of this still unrealised potential, the government is working to break any possibility of organised labour using a divisive pay structure.
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How affecting he is now, outlining aspects of the divisive mess that's ensued since the deaths of Doctors Bond and Barnes, in this engrossingly sad indictment of power gone awry, directed by Don Argott serving as his own cinematographer.
Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations
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The Trade Ministers will attempt to build bridges in the divisive but linchpin issue of farm trade.
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The issue of gays serving in the military is one that is both controversial and divisive.
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The denial of ‘political’ agendas is a standard trope, especially under authoritarian regimes where the word connotes divisive haggling against the interests of the united people.
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Aside from the dismal academic record of ability grouping, it has a divisive social consequence as well.
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A multicultural society should be inclusive rather than divisive and this is something we all need to work at.
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During the presidential campaign, we know that Barack Obama promised to move away from what he called the stale and divisive politics of the past.
CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009
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All the evidence, though, shows that he is the most divisive and untrustworthy minister the portfolio has had for as long as most of us can remember.
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Hooper and Cockes were upbraided for having “a negative attitude and divisive tendencies.”
Flight Risk
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Politics has always been ugly and divisive, with opposing sides calling each other names.
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Now they're at it again, casting around for a racially or socially divisive issue.
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On surveying the organizational ranks, they see only low morale, divisiveness, cynicism, and dulled thinking.
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We need not look far for contemporary examples of blatant divisive methods employed by community leaders.
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On such a divisive issue, the candidates owe it to the military to tell us where they stand.
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But experts reading those words, whether in translation or in the original Arabic, describe the language as divisive and militant.
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Whenever we did anything weirder and more experimental there was a divisive reaction, but we kind of reveled in it.
Zoilus
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They are genuinely concerned about the effects of religious divisiveness in the modern world.
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As with California's Supreme Court, many of the berobed judiciary take it as their solemn duty to do the people's thinking for them on the modern world's most difficult and divisive social issues.
Gay Marriage Returns
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He believes that unemployment is socially divisive.
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In 1984 the Miners Strike, one of the most divisive events in modern British history, took place.
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He said the acronyms used by the government were divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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But nor do we want the divisiveness and social damage which inequality incurs.
Letters: Disciplining force of organised labour
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And it is socially divisive as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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And contested elections are frequently divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was, and remains, the most divisive political figure of modern times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four questions for corporate finance One man's efficient, interconnected global market is another man's arbitrary and nationally divisive casino.
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Among evangelical Christians, Graham is known for avoiding divisive rhetoric.
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Private education is often regarded as socially divisive.
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Whatever its deficiencies, the point was that it was inclusive, not divisive.
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The planned cuts are deep, potentially divisive and hard to understand.
Times, Sunday Times
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It upsets me because I think the way things are skewed is very divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The transatlantic dispute over genetic engineering threatens to be much more divisive.
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The tricolour is portrayed as a mnemonic of the country, which once stood for sacrifice, peace and fertility, and also as a country today fragmented by divisive political and religious forces.
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The germ of divisiveness was planted many years ago way back in 1939, and unity of the movement has only come in fleetingly short spurts since then.
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Yet the finer details needed to implement this idea in the context of international trade have proven contentious and divisive.
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It is right that this bitterly divisive chapter is closed in a way which holds all to account.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first oil shocks and gas-station lines in peacetime history; the first presidential resignation ever; assassinations and riots; failing schools; failing industries; polarized politics; vulgarized culture; polluted air and water; divisive and inconclusive wars.
How America Can Rise Again
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One could also consider that placing the Welsh language programmes on one special channel out of the sight of those unable to speak Welsh has helped to neutralize the inflammatory and divisive effect of the language on monoglot monoglot English speaking Welsh people.
Archive 2008-06-01
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No position could have been more incendiary or divisive in the years leading up to the Civil War.
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The Vietnam war was an extremely divisive issue in the US.
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The stability of his government was achieved at the cost of an inability to introduce a crucial but divisive reform of the pension system.
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You profess a movement that is inclusive in order to overcome divisiveness.
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That is why democratic theory has always warned against the rule of unreason, against majoritarian designs, against the invocation of divisive strategies.
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For at its heart this election has highlighted the thorny, divisive issue of what that flag stands for.
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This "tar baby" epithet is just the latest in an intermittent string of racialized stunts, deployed in dog-whistle fashion -- usually by folks on the right, to inject culturally divisive sentiments into an already vitriolic public discourse.
James Peterson: Tea Party Tar Babies
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The issue is as divisive as it is emotive.
Times, Sunday Times
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He saw the conflict, now so ominously coming up over the horizon, as one between the living wholeness of the German conception and the dying divisiveness of English pluralism.
A Renegade History of the United States
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As Donaldson is regarded as a divisive whipper-snapper by the elderly gents and dames on the Council, the party leader is probably safe until the autumn.
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The migration rights of unmarried partners is a deeply divisive issue.
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Cliques often have the negative effect of creating divisiveness among a staff.
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The abortion issue has opened up the historically divisive issue to wider debate.
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He knows that offering a tax allowance to married couples but not cohabiting partners risks being divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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These happy few, this band of brothers rescued America from the divisive partisan bitchery of hacks.
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Which puts us on the same side on one of the most divisive issues of the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which puts us on the same side on one of the most divisive issues of the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would ask this because such behavior is divisive, it creates a feeling of an us and a them that is inconducive to a smooth flowing workforce.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2009
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But it remains extraordinarily rare for a sitting governor to risk taking a position of moral leadership on the deeply divisive issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suggested that we introduce Edinburgh weighting at a recent union conference, but I was shouted down because it was seen as divisive.
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But it remains extraordinarily rare for a sitting governor to risk taking a position of moral leadership on the deeply divisive issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite efforts to the contrary on the part of some grantors, the most striking side effect of foreign grants is divisiveness.
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The planned cuts are deep, potentially divisive and hard to understand.
Times, Sunday Times
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That achievement disgusts the its socio-ethnic engineers, its branch-stackers and multicultural grant grubbers, for whom his election victories were direct refutations of every toxic tenet of their divisive philosophy.
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The debate over climate change is certain to become the most divisive issue at the Gleneagles summit.
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We sapped our emotional strength with divisive feuds.
The Good Fight
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To bring the country together after an extremely divisive campaign.
The Sun
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During my 20-year political career, I have never experienced such a great extent of divisiveness in our society.
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Its effectiveness is impaired, too, by its fragmented and divisive nature.
The Government and Politics of France
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How can the Supreme Court possibly know what the most divisive policy is with respect to these hair-splitting distinctions.
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At the same time, the commission shies away from the more complex issue of taste and decency as it relates to discussion of socially divisive issues such as race, immigration and religion.
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She was seen as shrill, divisive, unlikeable.
Times, Sunday Times
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We see the politics of divisiveness being stirred up in our society.
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It had started dilatory and divisive tactics on the finality of accession.
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He is so divisive, so abstract that he is uncomprehensible in his promises of what he will contibute to America ...
Obama edges Clinton in island squeaker
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It was a brief break from doomy and divisive politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Mayor Daley announced his retirement, much was made around the city of the possibility of a return to the divisive racial politics of the 1980s, when a white faction on the City Council warred with black mayor Harold Washington.
Rahm Emanuel Attacked In Anti-Semitic Flier
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The only thing "fueling" the "death panel" myths is the twit McCain unleashed upon this nation when he selected one of the most unqualified and divisive politicians in the world to be his running mate last year.
McCain says 'ambiguous' health bills fuel 'death panel' claims
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Family members are being coached about potentially divisive issues to avoid in telephone and video conversations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Identity politics is deeply and inexorably divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Teaching American history without stirring accounts of non-white heroes and cultures is irresponsible as well as divisive.
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It is irresponsible and reckless to loosely talk about one of the most divisive, hurtful symbols in American history.
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The severance of lines of communication at a grass-roots level has made the community more easily influenced by divisive statements by members of the elite.
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Two hurricanes, rising gas prices and political divisiveness have torn our country apart.
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He's turned away from some legal recommendations that maybe a hard-edged person or just a lawyer would have said, ‘Do it because you can win,’ because he thought it was either too divisive or it would take too long.
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JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: "Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for.
CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2008
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The council called for an immediate cessation of this divisive public discourse and also called for firm and impartial application of the law of the land against those who continue to endanger public peace and amity by such discourse.
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Family members are being coached about potentially divisive issues to avoid in telephone and video conversations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The country is quite capable of withstanding a little divisive demagoguery.
Canada.com
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The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides.
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It is one of the most divisive issues of our time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The experience was devastating for me, and suddenly made me aware of the dangers of narrowly defined identities, and also of the divisiveness that can lie buried in communitarian politics.
Amartya Sen - Autobiography
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He knows that offering a tax allowance to married couples but not cohabiting partners risks being divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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He employed a mediation model that eliminated the divisive win-lose element from arguments and substituted the goal of clarification.
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It is right that this bitterly divisive chapter is closed in a way which holds all to account.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plainly, this kind of guarantee is socially divisive, a recipe for religious controversy if not civil strife.
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Harmison has been blamed by some for the recent bickering and painted as a divisive influence but, says Flintoff, that is an erroneous perception.
The Guardian World News
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The key is to promote community cohesion and to counteract divisiveness.
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Several students have opposed the attempts to divert the campaign along divisive communal lines.
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I'm so sick of the divisive drivel from the Republicans.
Pawlenty: With trigger, Dems 'will shoot themselves in the foot'
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As an unreformed Pan-Africanist, I also believe that Africans are not prisoners to be kept behind tribal walls, ethnic enclaves, Ivorite, kilils, Bantustans, apartheid or whatever divisive and repressive ideology is manufactured by dictators, but free men and women who are captains of their destines in one un-walled Africa that belongs to all equally.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa
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Four questions for corporate finance One man's efficient, interconnected global market is another man's arbitrary and nationally divisive casino.
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It is one of the most divisive issues of our time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Phil ElsdonDurham• Polly Toynbee is right in pointing to the social divisiveness caused by the use of the word "chav".
Letters: On the fault lines of fractured Britain
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A divisive element had been injected into the movement during its last phase when the British rulers had found that it was not possible for them to hold any longer.
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He is desperate, he is indecisive, and he is divisive.
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But for now, it's an unpopular law that took a divisive year to enact, that liberals and conservatives loathe, that is full of bureaucratic and fiscal IEDs, and that drained attention from dealing with the economy.
What Went Wrong
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This country still had a deeply oppressive, unequal and divisive political system.
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It exhorts viewers to fight against divisive forces that disrupt the peace of a nation, says Sundar.
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At the same time it would not be divisive since it would be available to far larger numbers of the population.
Science, Technology, and Social Change
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Everything is smart and sarcastic and divisive and nasty and cutesy.
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All of these were divisive pressures that must have made not just the distribution of charity amongst the two groups, but also basic social commerce between the Hellenists and Hebrews, extremely difficult.
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World Weddings tells five personal stories of nuptials in extreme, hazardous or divisive situations around the world.
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He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
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He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
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The author has provided what is certain to be an epic firsthand account of a critical episode in that acutely divisive era.
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How can Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States of America, invite one of the most divisive religious leaders in the world to invocate his inauguration?
RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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No clue where to start cleaning up the mess he inherited from the single most inept, corrupt, blatantly divisive and borderline evil administration I can remember.
Bush on Obama: 'This guy has no clue'
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Pakistan's Ambassador, Husain Haroon, is optimistic, saying there has been a great deal of divisiveness in the past, but that views are starting to converge.
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He believes that unemployment is socially divisive and is leading to the creation of an underclass.
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Berninger's lyrics, though tonally divisive, are incredibly engaging.
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Today, the divisive little vegetable is enjoying something of a cabbagey comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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As was explained in the previous chapter, the architecture of upper-class housing itself became increasingly divisive.
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John, would it be your experience in caucuses that policy issues aren't ultimately as divisive as the sort of long term fractures that exist around loyalties, around tribal loyalties within the party?
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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I cannot believe that after having run such an exceptional, thoughtful and for the most part 'pitch perfect' campaign that Obama would make the collosal mistake of being 'blackmailed' into accepting this divisive, self-centered, tone-deaf and (I'm increasingly convinced) not entirely stable person as a VP candidate.
Obama Gets New Supers, With A Switcher From Hillary
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And it is socially divisive as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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His suggestion that Europe could return to divisive nationalism was dismissed by many as alarmist and unhistorical.
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While Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri is technically bin Laden's successor, he is considered by many to be a divisive force and ill-suited for the top role.
Forgotten, but notgone
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Private education is often regarded as socially divisive.
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The potentially most divisive argument will be about who should be in charge during the dangerous period ahead.
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Given the breakdown of corporations and guilds, and the divisiveness of politics and religion, the vehicle of this integration was the voluntary association in which talk of politics and religion was banned.
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This work's main emphasis is on the bitter internecine struggle that raged in the liberal community between 1945-48, when it split on the divisive issues of relations with Russia and the feasibility of working with domestic Communists to achieve desirable goals.
Jim Tuck's homepage, biography and published works
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Bernard Ntaganda, who registered an opposition party last year, the PS-Imberakuri, was summoned in December to a senate committee hearing because the government said it had received a tip that the party was "ethnically divisive" and may have violated the genocide-ideology law.
Land That Outlawed Hate On Edge as Key Vote Nears
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With Portugal he has been a divisive figure.
Times, Sunday Times
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The strike was a divisive issue in the community.
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Perhaps less flagrant yet equally divisive are the media outlets who only too willingly "racialize" stories for increased ratings or readership.
Archive 2008-11-01
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It's all over and the way you make your exit is important – you can either jump on the 'unity' train – becuase the majority of Americans have made it clear that's what we want – or you can live longer in the state of denial, hoping to perpetuate divisiveness and conflict ....
Clinton calls for debate in Oregon
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Instead, she chose to remain defiant and divisive in her words.
Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake'
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During her time on The Apprentice she came across as divisive and argumentative.
The Sun
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She was, and remains, the most divisive political figure of modern times.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was an important declaration of principle on one of the most divisive political issues of the day.
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She feeds the ignorant, hate, and divisiveness among us especially that not so brite!
Reid takes dig at Palin in reelection launch
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The issue is as divisive as it is emotive.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the talks held earlier this year, the time frames were among the most divisive issues.
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From the beginning, we've had to fight against all national divisiveness.
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I'm not convinced that denominationalism isn't as potentially divisive as the Jew/Gentile split of the early church, tho it is a reality of church life in our day, and denominations do exist for very good reasons...
Unition - Is It Possible?
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I do not traduce single parents, co-habiting parents or divorcees, plenty of whom succeed against the odds; but that's the point: the statistics suggest that divisive failure is more common.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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He's depolarized the single most divisive issue of this decade, the Iraq war.
CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2009
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He said the acronyms used by the government were divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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As in Greece, the authorities censored the term civil war and employed phrases like “the War of Spain,” which seemed less divisive.42
Bloodlust
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We have heard a lot about how divisive a character he is.
The Sun
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Meanwhile a new breed of artists was advancing another brand of banality, with divisive effects on the art world.
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We have heard a lot about how divisive a character he is.
The Sun
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His take on aerobic exercise is equally divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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The authors assert that the tariff was a crucial, if not the main, economic source of divisiveness during the antebellum era.
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This country still had a deeply oppressive, unequal and divisive political system.
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Their similarities override their differences, and yet in these towns race has become a divisive issue.
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Instead the Minister has produced a divisive, confrontational Bill which will be resisted ever more resolutely by right-minded rural people.
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Now their tiny southern Russian republic is to be the arena for settling one of the most bitterly divisive conflicts in the world of chess.
Times, Sunday Times
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—President Barack Obama said the long, divisive Iraq war will reach its formal end on Thursday, when an American flag in Baghdad signifying the U.S. military mission is ceremonially lowered and returned to the U.S.
Obama Lauds Troops as Iraq War Winds Up
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The challenge to re-imagine a society in the midst of a profound transition -- to redefine the relationship between its vision and aspiration and its power arrangements, is always slower and more divisive than we expect.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: Gridlock Is Good
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Taking an unexpected hand in the fortunes of cinematic renegades, the French designer agnès b. aka Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé has given financial backing to such bold and divisive filmmakers as Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noé, and conceived the allusively chic attire worn by Uma Thurman and John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction.
Bidding a Very Long Farewell to Hungary's Film Hero
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C, which is what I think you referenced, and other divisive issues, he kind of dodged that question.
Jason Salzman: What Kind of "Real Conservative" Will Be the Next Dick Wadhams
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He was a divisive figure who became a unifying one.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, this is entirely possible without a divisive blanket ban.
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Some might argue that the removal of pay would be socially divisive but MPs already are divided by income, education and party affiliation.
Times, Sunday Times
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This country still had a deeply oppressive, unequal and divisive political system.
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This approach also kept the church from becoming embroiled in a potentially divisive issue.
Christianity Today
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This approach also kept the church from becoming embroiled in a potentially divisive issue.
Christianity Today
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Progressivism has slowly gained a dangerous hold on our freedoms and our government, and rather than take us into a twenty first Century of devaluing the ascriptive groups of race, ethnicity, and gender [neo-feminism], we are more divisive and apart than ever before.
Progressivism Challenges Liberal Democracy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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So few words yet they have led to one of the most divisive issues in our country.
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The divisiveness and hate mongering that Sarah Palin propagated during her election run is not only unforgivable, it was treasonous.
Palin's PAC forced to correct FEC filing
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It shocks me that gay and lesbian relationships can still be such a divisive issue for so many people.
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But more important, and certainly more divisive, than such occasions was the endlessly controversial and emotionally potent question of precedence.
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Yet I think the continued presence of these wrong doctrines has a baleful and divisive influence in Adventism, causing large segments of the denomination to lurch towards legalism and works righteousness.
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To bring the country together after an extremely divisive campaign.
The Sun
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Identity politics is deeply and inexorably divisive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for - and that Barack Obama's still does.
Sweetness & Light