divisive issue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdivisiveandissue
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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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(Definition ofdivisiveandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Language was to remain a deeply contentious anddivisiveissue.
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The firstdivisiveissueprovoking hostile debate was about the meaning of "rights" in water.
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But it was also adivisiveissue.
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Whether, in general, they really did have that much influence on adivisiveissuelike direct nominations is a matter that falls beyond the scope of this article.
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The seconddivisiveissuethat is causing problems is the use of stocks.
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It is adivisiveissue, 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 adivisiveissuefor the alliance.
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This is, we know, an emotive anddivisiveissue.
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The justification for that is that selection is a deeplydivisiveissue.
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Immunisation is adivisiveissuewhich cannot easily be resolved.
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Certainly with the major parties this has proved adivisiveissue.
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We wanted consultees' views on the operational practicalities rather than on the perhaps moredivisiveissueof who should pay.
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I will not insist on what, for me, is obviously adivisiveissueat this stage.
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It is adivisiveissuehere, 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 thisdivisiveissue.
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It has become for some of them a deeplydivisiveissuein 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 thedivisiveissue.
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The right to access or to intrude on private land has long been a contentious anddivisiveissue.
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It would begin the autumn with an almost obsessive return to the mostdivisiveissueof 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 adivisiveissue.
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