adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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more
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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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Reality is more divisive for both nations.
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The history they have actually experienced has been much more divisive .
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The longer he resists the pressure for change, the more divisive and dangerous will be his efforts to suppress it.
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In a post-industrial information economy, the differences become more pronounced and more divisive as the length and necessity of schooling increase.
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Ceremonies have been more divisive in character than any other part of ritual or theory.
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The potentially most divisive argument will be about who should be in charge during the dangerous period ahead.
socially
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This dependence upon parental support, though necessary if schools are to survive, is socially divisive .
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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 charge is that exclusive concentration upon the personal can, in its effects, be socially divisive .
■ NOUN
issue
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Commentators suggested that the Church's role vis-à-vis the state would become a divisive issue in the expected October elections.
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Since Bakke, the Court has continued to be deeply fragmented on this divisive issue .
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There is no long-term advantage in avoiding contentious and divisive issues .
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The strike became a divisive issue in the community, turning neighbors against neighbors and even relatives against relatives.
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The more divisive issue was the old question of an election under united Coalition leadership.
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The abortion issue is an even more divisive issue between sisters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in America.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among evangelical Christians, Graham is known for avoiding divisive rhetoric.
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Anti-debt groups in the South are aware of the divisive effect of selective and exclusionary debt relief proposals.
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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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For one to sue another would have been a divisive act not easily tolerated.
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The formalization of learning was not only unnecessary and inhibiting, but politically divisive .
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The introduction of grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges is without question divisive , leaving local authority schools as poor relations.
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With a membership deeply divided in its views, will a politicised curriculum be divisive ?