But it remains sharply polarized and repression, although less violent, remains pervasive.

And their differences in style, generation and ideology produced a vote today that was sharply polarized by race and geography.

"I am running because our city has become sharply polarized."

In this sharply polarized world, the only solution offered in El Diario is extreme violence.

Indeed, international approval helped to confer legitimacy on a man who won a bitter, sharply polarized campaign.

During the Vietnam War, in which 58,000 American service members died, veterans themselves became sharply polarized, and the divisions surfaced even in the past presidential campaign.

Justice Powell was a nonideological conservative who often cast the deciding vote on the sharply polarized Court.

Public opinion about the protesters, their tactics and the government's responsibility to resolve the problem is sharply polarized.

Her attitude and language often sharply polarized debate, and made Dworkin herself a figure of intense controversy.

"I am running because our city has become sharply polarized," the candidate said at a news conference at his Municipal Building office.