"I think that empty chair beside Alex Maskey shows how isolated and divisive a figure he is, " he said.
For centuries, culture has been as often a divisive as a unifying force.
Lord Jones, a former CBI chief and trade minister in Gordon Brown's government, said Mr Miliband's speech had been "divisive and a kick in the teeth" for business.
"You have to note that the Republicans had an extremely flawed candidate, " Rothenberg said of Jenkins, a divisive former state lawmaker who lost a bruising Senate race in 1996 to Mary Landrieu.
Once again, he is seen as a divisive president, who set out on a more conservative path than many imagined.
During the trials, Ms. Knox became a highly divisive figure, depicted as a cunning she-devil in Italy and a victim of a ham-handed Italian justice system in the U.S. Critics charged that the case was based mostly on circumstantial evidence.
This reflects an emerging truth about Mr Bush: he is proving a divisive president, unable to change the minds of a significant slice of his people.
"He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans, and he's managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan political attack, " Gillespie said in a separate interview on the same NBC program.
President Bush is credited with rescuing the NATO summit from a possibly divisive exercise and turning it into a display of alliance unity by announcing a major initiative on conventional forces.
"The passage into law of the Responsible Parenthood Act closes a highly divisive chapter of our history - a chapter borne of the convictions of those who argued for, or against this act, " she said.
After a divisive election in November and the refusal of political and ideological wounds to heal, and a continued sense of economic uncertainty afoot in the U.S., there probably would be little true appetite for any kind of sermonizing by Chrysler this time, even if its viewpoint were filtered through some sort of brand appeal.
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It has made him a divisive figure among followers of the Netherlands, many of whom say his inclusion ahead of Rafael van der Vaart, a classic playmaker in the Dutch mold, is symptomatic of the nation abandoning its free-wheeling tradition.
That is why I'm so relieved, to be relieved, however briefly, of a bitter, divisive campaign, and listen to a man of God, with a message of hope and change.
But illegal immigration remains a divisive subject that still arouses visceral opposition among some Americans.
Thatcher, who was a divisive figure in the U.K., also include potential disturbances by anti-Thatcher protesters.
With Pace stepping down, the administration avoids a divisive reconfirmation hearing before the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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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However, Baroness Thatcher, who has died aged 87 after suffering a stroke, was a divisive figure on Merseyside.
The body had been facing a divisive and unprecedented vote on the issue.
In early 1984, Reagan was widely viewed as a divisive and controversial figure.
U.S. Senate on Wednesday expected to start a divisive debate that could spell political dangers for the Republican majority.
But the National Union of Teachers said the free schools and academies programme was "a divisive and unnecessary experiment".
He also argued that independence was a divisive policy, remote from the economic and social concerns of the Scottish people.
Fernando Ferrer won the Democratic primary in New York's mayoral election, after the second-placed candidate withdrew to avoid a divisive run-off.
"This has been a unified approach, rather than a divisive approach, " says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the president of the American Action Forum.
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.
But yes, things can still get worse in Ecuador: its biggest province has embarked on a divisive campaign for more autonomy.
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