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divisive issue

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meanings of divisiveand issue


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divisive
adjective
uk /dɪˈvaɪ.sɪv/ us /dɪˈvaɪ.sɪv/
used to describe something that causes great and sometimes unfriendly disagreement within a group ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk /ˈɪʃ.uː/ us /ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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Examples of divisive issue


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Language was to remain a deeply contentious and divisiveissue.
The first divisiveissue provoking hostile debate was about the meaning of "rights" in water.
But it was also a divisiveissue.
Whether, in general, they really did have that much influence on a divisiveissue like direct nominations is a matter that falls beyond the scope of this article.
The second divisiveissue that is causing problems is the use of stocks.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is a divisiveissue, not only among lawyers, moralists and philosophers, but also among the less articulate members of society.
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It is unfortunate, but unquestionable, that the strategic defence initiative could provide a divisiveissue for the alliance.
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This is, we know, an emotive and divisiveissue.
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The justification for that is that selection is a deeply divisiveissue.
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Immunisation is a divisiveissue which cannot easily be resolved.
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Certainly with the major parties this has proved a divisiveissue.
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We wanted consultees' views on the operational practicalities rather than on the perhaps more divisiveissue of who should pay.
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I will not insist on what, for me, is obviously a divisiveissue at this stage.
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It is a divisiveissue here, because the level of tax on the individual is painful, but corporation tax is virtually voluntary.
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It is time to recognise that a fair compromise has been struck which should provide an enduring basis for a settlement of this divisiveissue.
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It has become for some of them a deeply divisiveissue in which some nurses, doctors, porters and technicians find themselves at loggerheads.
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The procedure motion will facilitate proper debate and a conclusion on the divisiveissue.
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The right to access or to intrude on private land has long been a contentious and divisiveissue.
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It would begin the autumn with an almost obsessive return to the most divisiveissue of the last 18 months.
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Many parents quite understandably fear what would happen to their child under a selective system, so it is a divisiveissue.
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