As Mr. Hume writes: "Soon after the council first met in 1945, it became a place for divisive public arguments rather than for solving conflicts through collective action.

As an evangelical Christian, I am deeply concerned about the many divisive arguments that have driven these deep wedges between us.

That avoided a divisive argument over "who is a Jew?"

No longer content to dramatize divisive arguments around the family table, he has pulled the family itself out of shape and turned it into a grotesque version of itself.

"This court has repeatedly condemned, as divisive and inimical to both democratic and logical principles, arguments which encourage the jury to weigh the evidence by considering the race of a particular witness," the court said.

Time was too short to allow diversion into fruitless and divisive argument.

SisterSong spearheaded the push for a new, comprehensive reproductive justice movement as a more inclusive alternative to the "divisive" argument for women's rights that primarily emphasized access to contraception and the right to an abortion.

The 1% have been very adept at distracting the 99% with divisive arguments over race, arts funding, reproductive rights, and fading memories of the 1960s.

The potentially most divisive argument will be about who should be in charge during the dangerous period ahead.

"They've decided from their polls that a significant number of voters are susceptible to divisive and irrational arguments that welfare is largely to blame for the nation's economic ills."