divisive English

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divisive

— adjective (= dissentious) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

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factious

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Disunity

• What words describe a person, force, or influence that divides a group?
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You represent a great idea. and we know that for millions of our national comrades. physical labor will not longer be a divisive concept.

This has been the most divisive meeting the oil states have ever had.

You'll make the floating voter see you as an angry and divisive figure.

To Labour, we explain that selective education is divisive and to the Tories we explain that it is expensive.

Coal ran the most divisive campaign in 20 years and the president did nothing.

The system of baronies and fiefdoms is foolish, it's divisive.

We've been way too divisive over this, Chef.

The Protestants are divisive.

We all admire Clark's energy but there is some concern that he may end up being divisive.

You know, socially divisive cliques and hall passes aside, this place really is not all that bad.

Josh Horowitz, I think it's really low of you. to bring divisive politics into this Food Fair. when the purpose of it was to foster a spirit of togetherness. among Roxbury's international community. as well as to raise money for the Drama Club.

An issue has emerged that may prove divisive to our administration. I would like all the facts in hand before making my decision.

And for either of my opponents to suggest that downtown development comes at the expense of our city's neighborhoods, well, that's just unfair and, uh, divisive.

It's a divisive force.

Duncan's so divisive.

So we trust you to ensure your Minister does nothing Incisive or divisive over the next few weeks.

An issue has emerged that may prove divisive to our administration.

Angelica is the mirror of me. I know what she's gonna experience as a biracial girl growing up in a divisive world.

The data I have been describing simply shows that intuition that people have had for hundreds of years, that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive.

I mean, yes, this is a huge, divisive issue for them.

Deceit and deception, callousness and indifference to our individual problems, and the disgusting playing of divisive politics, pitting the young against the old, labor against management, north against south.

Why? To prove that I can put divisive partisan politics aside to participate in a break-in.

Louis, this firm has been through a divisive fight.

Even our mascot is divisive.

The most divisive issue in America is affirmative action.

I know what she's gonna experience as a biracial girl growing up in a divisive world.

Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

Those topics are too divisive.

But the rumors persist. And like every good fairy tale, the story grows more intricate, and more divisive, every decade.

News and current affairs

Undoubtedly, these verdicts will remain divisive in a society not yet able to come to terms with its past.

For one thing, the divisive war in Iraq may turn out to be the last act of the twentieth century rather than a harbinger of the twenty-first.

Democratic politics is messy and divisive, and riddled with compromises.

Playing divisive games with an electorate that is not deeply divided never succeeds for long.

The simultaneous scaling back of the local-government system, along with the divisive politics of coalition governments in Pakistan's fragile democracy, continues to undermine implementation of the polio eradication program.

The exam that the government must sit is to use its new powers to appoint widely-respected, impartial members - rather than divisive satraps - to these bodies.

In transatlantic relations, nothing is potentially more divisive than the issue of Israel's security.

If divisive decisions must be taken, healthy partnership requires that they be discussed openly and honestly.

A divisive transatlantic rivalry offers no ethical or political basis for an enlightened European approach.

But there are concerns that, if not fundamentally divisive, are worrying.

But six years of divisive as well as dismissively haughty misrule by Tung's administration, which pits one group against another as its preferred method of governance, suggest that Hong Kong's problems are much deeper.

Rumsfeld's remarks were divisive because Western Europe seems to know even less than the Americans about Europe's eastern half.

This has helped Turkey not only to maintain its own internal balance, but also to win markets and keep friends without the heavy baggage and risks of divisive geopolitics.

At the same time, cooler heads will struggle to postpone a potentially divisive 2007 referendum on the final status of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

In today's divisive circumstances, the emergence of a new Palestinian leader will most likely take years.

To achieve this end, however, the state must be stripped of its ability to impose divisive dogmas, traditions, and stereotypes.

Even in America's highly divisive political atmosphere, it seems, where there is a will, there is a way.

COPENHAGEN - At its heart, much of the debate over climate change deals with just one divisive and vexing question: How big should cuts in carbon emissions be?

Indeed, among China's elite no foreign-policy issue is more divisive.

Now, the people of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - not rejected, after all - must behave as well as possible to salvage something workable from the sometimes bitter and divisive arguments.

But that does not mean that the European Union is safe from divisive forces.

The intervention by Turkey and Brazil into the globally divisive issue of Iran's nuclear program is but the latest, and also the clearest, sign of this new element in global affairs.

Most importantly, a new generation of leaders in both countries seems less hung up on divisive memories.