I think we can now let a long-standing and divisive debate die down.
With no domestic crisis to force divisive reforms on Germany, Mrs Merkel thinks she can just nudge the country forward.
The issue remains deeply divisive in America, where two voters out of three oppose marriage for gays.
Such approaches are in principle good in aligning interests and attracting top talent, But effective implementation is crucial as they can also be divisive.
Some also wonder if it is overdoing things to give the late president, a divisive figure, the honour of burial in the crypt of the Wawel cathedral in Cracow, alongside Poland’s greatest leaders.
Obama is keen to try to put the row behind him, reluctant to see prosecutions that could be politically divisive and distract attention from his heavy domestic and foreign agenda.
He is also one of the most divisive men in America.
Replacing the bitter, divisive Mr Brown with the calm, well-liked Mr Johnson is an attractive prospect.
Although everything is officially on the table, the two parties have put to one side the most divisive issues: taxes and entitlements.
The public plan is the most divisive issue in the health care debate, even though the Congressional Budget Office says than no more than 12 million people would end up signing up for such insurance.
The argument has gotten so shrill and divisive that I am bored by it.
Demand that Congress engage in divisive, protracted, but ultimately successful bargaining to produce legislation that, with much fanfare, extends these programs' solvency through 2039.
Al Gore may be universally admired in Europe, but in America he remains a divisive figure.
However it is much less divisive than before as this generation of fathers (under 40) are much more involved with their children.
Poland denounced plans for separate summits of euro-zone leaders for being divisive.
It is not just that she is an unconvincing stand-in, nor even that she seems to have been chosen partly for her views on divisive social issues, notably abortion.
He LEAVES the White House as one of the least popular and most divisive presidents in American history.
Bush loyalists, led by Karl Rove, have duly over-interpreted this poll in order to soften their former boss's reputation as America's most divisive President.
