Party leaders fear they will lose their edge on many divisive issues.
Within the party, one of the most divisive issues is abortion.
By all accounts, the use of violence became the most divisive issue.
Over the years, the debate has proven to be a divisive issue at the University.
The more divisive issue was the old question of an election under united Coalition leadership.
Religion became a divisive issue during the presidential campaign of 1960.
"The judge felt that it would be a divisive issue in the community."
But trade is becoming a divisive issue, especially since the end of the war.
This has never been a divisive issue inside the Commission.
But the future in a disputed land remains the central and ever more divisive issue for them.