divisive
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definition
adjective
the highly divisive issue of abortion
tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people.
example
As we've seen lately in campus politics, some issues can be ideologically 'divisive' .
Abortion has always been a very polarising, 'divisive' issue that is irreconcilable.
On such a 'divisive' issue, the candidates owe it to the military to tell us where they stand.
It is the most 'divisive' issue in British politics and has been for over a decade.
That avenue would be open, that 'divisive' issue would be out there for years to come, and it would not be fixed.
So few words yet they have led to one of the most 'divisive' issues in our country.
They are difficult, 'divisive' issues, but they can not be avoided any longer.
The abortion issue has opened up the historically 'divisive' issue to wider debate.
The debate over climate change is certain to become the most 'divisive' issue at the Gleneagles summit.
Race is a very 'divisive' issue and if they managed to get a seat it would be very bad news for everyone in the area.
The success of the EU has been its ability to find cohesion on even the most 'divisive' of issues.
It is therefore no surprise that the party always looks for 'divisive' issues.
Their similarities override their differences, and yet in these towns race has become a 'divisive' issue.
It was an important declaration of principle on one of the most 'divisive' political issues of the day.
During the talks held earlier this year, the time frames were among the most 'divisive' issues.
The bottom line is that the IFA is content to avoid what it considers to be a 'divisive' issue.
For at its heart this election has highlighted the thorny, 'divisive' issue of what that flag stands for.
The Trade Ministers will attempt to build bridges in the 'divisive' but linchpin issue of farm trade.
She said she would listen to the people in order to achieve a consensus on the potentially 'divisive' issue.
Now they're at it again, casting around for a racially or socially 'divisive' issue.
Thankfully, it's almost time to move beyond the bickering and 'divisiveness' and start thinking about life after Nov.2.
The grating ideological 'divisiveness' of the debate prompts controversial statements.
There was a lot of conflict and 'divisiveness' in the Corinthian church, and at least part of the problem was the absence of common courtesy.
Intolerance is the mother of hatred, 'divisiveness' and disharmony.
So I put the responsibility for the controversy, for the 'divisiveness' , at her feet.
The play will bring the 20th Century's most ‘notorious tyrant’ daringly and 'divisively' on to the stage.
What had been envisioned in 1937 as an operation of quick decision had by 1941 become a massively and 'divisively' institutionalized conflict with no end in sight.
‘Never trust anyone over 30,’ they used to say, 'divisively' .
Over the last 25 years, few topics in systematics and paleontology have been as 'divisively' debated as the origin of birds.
But I did witness him destroy characters who criticised our great leaders and act 'divisively' in my party.
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