Does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue?
Mr. LEON PANETTA (Iraq Study Group): There's no question that this has been a divisive issue.
The impact of the minimum wage on unemployment is a divisive issue among economists.
And it's a divisive issue for you all, as it is for the Republicans.
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But it remains a highly divisive issue, and both parties will be tested.
While Gore professes deeply held pro-choice beliefs, his detractors have assailed his congressional voting record on the deeply divisive issue.
The federal version of the bill, which has stalled in the Senate, may become a divisive issue in the presidential election.
An expanded and restructured Security Council would doubtless include a member from Africa which could in itself be a divisive issue.
That is not the path to national reconciliation, and it does not show respect to the diverse views on this divisive issue.
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Perhaps most important of these is what the case says about the death penalty - a perennially divisive issue across the United States.
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Same-sex marriage, for example, is a divisive issue in this country.
Britain's membership of the European Union is a divisive issue, but many Conservative and Labour ministers are in agreement that the UK should remain within it.
It is after all not only a very divisive issue, it is something for the future, something that can "evolve" still further in a second term.
The long-running privatisation of telecoms company Telstra is also a divisive issue for the government as support for it remaining in state-hands comes from the conservative heartland in country areas.
However, Republican aides acknowledge that immigration is a divisive issue within their party, with GOP members in competitive districts needing to appeal to Hispanic voters to win re-election this fall.
The media must be even-handed on this divisive issue, but they might also take a page from a small Mississippi paper that bigotry shouldn't deter them from treating gay couples fairly.
So it is with extreme reluctance that Charlemagne has concluded that, when it comes to the most divisive issue left in the draft European Union constitution, both sides have a point.
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Profanities abound in a parochial story set in a pretty English town in which a rough council estate becomes a divisive issue in a community riven with hate, prejudice and exclusion.
Yet it remains a deeply divisive issue - as Russian MPs found the first time it was debated in parliament last year, when the discussions ended in a punch-up between opposing deputies.
This divisive issue is amplified by the reported health problems of Kim Jung Il that could lead to a sudden death, similar to what occurred with his father, Kim Il Sung, in 1994.
To hear conservatives tell it, Mr Obama had just undermined the electoral chances of vulnerable Democrats, granting Republicans a legitimate way to push opponents to take a stand on this thorny and divisive issue.
But it has been a politically divisive issue.
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The treatment of detainees at Iran's prisons has increasingly become a divisive issue within Iran's Islamic leadership, as reformists continue to accuse the hardline government of allowing abuse and torture in attempts to coerce false confessions.
The new polls come as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe steps up his program to change the way the constitution is amended, an increasingly divisive issue that sparked demonstrations on Friday from both supporters and opponents of revisions.
Whoever takes over will not only need to build bridges quickly with the party in West Norfolk but will also have to find a way to broker a compromise over the divisive issue of the waste incinerator.
The president is going to talk a little bit about Iraq in the State of the Union and about his plan for more troops, but what we're hearing from the White House is, you know, that's such a divisive issue.
But Tuesday's unveiling of the "Women's Equality Act" which also includes nine other elements of Mr. Cuomo's women's rights agenda will set up a philosophical fight in the state Senate over a divisive issue that has defined the nation's culture wars for four decades.
Mr McCain has thus placed abortion, the most divisive cultural issue in America, at the centre of his campaign.
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