The time has come for citizens of all faiths to unite in an effort to remove this divisive and nettlesome issue from the political and social life of our nation.

Sponsorship of missionary activities became a divisive issue.

Kuwait made several representations to the Iraqis during the war to fix the border once and for all but Baghdad repeatedly demurred, claiming that the issue is a potentially divisive one that could inflame nationalist sentiment inside Iraq.

Immigration was a divisive and provocative issue during the late 1960s and on 23 May 1966 Jenkins delivered a speech on race relations, which is widely considered to be one of his best.

bill permits veterans to take their educational benefits at religious schools, an extremely divisive issue when applied to primary and secondary schools.

However, the most divisive issue in Bhutan in the 1980s and early 1990s was the accommodation of the Nepalese Hindu minority.

However, uniformity in this matter had not yet been fully achieved when the Montanist movement began ; Polycarp, for example, was a quartodeciman, and St. Irenaeus convinced the Pope to refrain from making the issue of the date of Easter a divisive one.

This became a divisive issue, with Labour opposing membership.

The status of waishengren in Taiwan is a divisive political issue.

A major undertaking by Mulroney's government was an attempt to resolve the divisive issue of national unity.

The issue was divisive.

Though recognition of Paul ’ s election would become a more divisive issue later in his reign, the election immediately gave Paul, as Grand Master of the Order, another reason to fight the French Republic: to reclaim the Order ’ s ancestral home.

The decision was reversed the following year, but it remained a divisive issue, and many on the Left continued to call for a change of leadership.

King government saw involvement in the BCATP as a means of keeping Canadians at home, but more importantly, it eased demands for a large expeditionary force and buried the politically divisive issue of overseas conscription.

The issue became a divisive one, as detractors accused supporters of lacking respect for the franchise's history, while supporters accused detractors of being " stuck in the past ", and not accepting change.

The government handling of the wreckage of the Greek Prestige tanker near the Spanish coast, which resulted in a major ecological disaster, also became a divisive issue.

The most divisive political issue of the day was the use of hard money, or specie, versus the use of paper money, and Hopkins sided with the latter group.

The issue was so controversial and divisive that in August 1997, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox was shot and injured while leaving a county board meeting by Larry Naman, a homeless man, who attempted to argue in court that her support for the tax justified his attack.

Bright April, a 1946 book written and illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli, features scenes of Germantown of the 1940s while addressing the divisive issue of racial prejudice experienced by African Americans, a daring topic for a children's book of that time.

The manner in which Andros approached the issue was necessarily divisive, since it threatened any landowner whose title was in any way dubious.

The Second World War was also a divisive issue.

However, it was not the Oneness baptismal formula which proved the divisive issue between Oneness advocates and other Pentecostals, but rather their rejection of the Trinity.

Forming the ACMS clearly did not reflect a consensus of the entire movement, and these para-church organizations became a divisive issue.

The British separated Burma from India in 1937 and granted the colony a new constitution calling for a fully elected assembly, but this proved to be a divisive issue as some Burmese felt that this was a ploy to exclude them from any further Indian reforms whereas other Burmese saw any action that removed Burma from the control of India to be a positive step.

The suggestion was followed by Stanley's detailed memorandum on the history of Canada's emblems, in which he warned that any new flag " must avoid the use of national or racial symbols that are of a divisive nature " and that it would be " clearly inadvisable " to create a flag that carried either a Union Flag or a Fleur-de-lis.

KCSU condemned the action as a " needlessly divisive and violent way to make a political point ... Union flag is a symbol and therefore can mean different things to different people in different contexts ".

Also in 2009 the group described the decision by John Key's National Government to allow the Tino rangatiratanga flag to fly from public buildings on Waitangi Day as " potentially divisive ".

Piercy said that the measure was likely to be divisive: " If there ’ s one thing the flag stands for, it ’ s that people don ’ t have to be compelled to say the Pledge of Allegiance or anything else .” Supporters of the measure said that objecting to it " vindicates all of us who say our Judeo-Christian heritage is under attack .”

Gandhi criticised the 16 May proposal as being inherently divisive, but Patel, realising that rejecting the proposal would mean that only the League would be invited to form a government, lobbied the Congress Working Committee hard to give its assent to the 16 May proposal.

He strongly criticized recent moves to form an ethnic Fijian electoral block, saying that would be divisive and would never lead to national unity.

In 1994, the Diocese of Clifton undertook an extensive investigation of the communities, and concluded that the movement was " a form of spiritual enslavement " and that its presence in parishes was " completely divisive and destructive.

The decision proved divisive and saw one Fianna Fáil TD, Síle de Valera, resign from the party in protest.

Marie was a series of symbolic but divisive resolutions by some municipalities outside Quebec declaring their towns unilingually English in protest of this supposed infringement on the rights embodied in the charter.

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

Monophysitism and its antithesis, Nestorianism, were both hotly disputed and divisive competing tenets in the maturing Christian traditions during the first half of the 5th century, during the tumultuous last decades of the Western Empire.

The first individual born in Northern Ireland to become President of Ireland, President McAleese was a regular visitor to Northern Ireland throughout her presidency, where she was on the whole warmly welcomed by both communities, confounding critics who had believed she would be a divisive figure.

From Reynolds's first day as Taoiseach, he had to deal with the X Case incident, which proved very divisive.

It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population In his first interview with foreign media, Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned " divisive " politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.

Rhythmically and metrically Thai music is steady in tempo, regular in pulse, divisive, in simple duple meter, without swing, with little syncopation ( p. 3, 39 ), and with the emphasis on the final beat of a measure or group of pulses and phrase ( p. 41 ), as opposed to the first as in European-influenced music.

The first Assembly election resulted in the Welsh Labour Party gaining only nearly half of the available seats, partly due to the broadly proportional electoral system that had been chosen, and probably also due to the divisive leadership battle.

The first is a failure to distinguish between systems of notation ( which may have both additive and divisive aspects ) and the music notated under such a system.

He won the first primary with 34 %, but failed to win the necessary 40 % to secure the nomination and ultimately lost a divisive runoff election to Mark Green following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers.

Anarchist librarian and activist Chuck Munson, for example, who first hosted the book on his infoshop web site, denies that lifestylism exists, and has decried the concept as " one of the most divisive and destructive things inflicted on the anarchist movement in recent years.

Although the International Church of Christ and the International Christian Church share almost identical doctrines and practices in ministry, the divisive issues revolved around McKean's conviction that only those who share the convictions of the first century church and great commission ( Matthew 28: 18-20 ) are true Disciples of Christ.

Chapman asked Herbert Spencer to write about this divisive matter for the first issue, and Spencer's Theory of Population deduced from the General Law of Animal Fertility actually appeared in the second issue, supporting the painful Malthusian principle as both true and self-correcting.

Among South Asian Americans, the term may be considered divisive, as first generation South Asian Americans use it to criticize the Americanization and lack of belonging to either Indian Asian or American culture they perceive in their second-generation peers or children.