| Mr Maliki had hoped to change the violent and divisively sectarian nature of Iraqi politics. No longer, it seems. |
| What had been envisioned in 1937 as an operation of quick decision had by 1941 become a massively and divisively institutionalized conflict with no end in sight. |
| The leadership campaign will divisively pit the neo-Blairite centre right, represented by Chuka Umunna, against the post-Brownite statist centre left, exemplified by second favourite Andy Burnham. |
| One in four Flemish voters plans to support him according to polls, his reward for tapping divisively into popular sentiment that taxpayers are being milked dry to prop up the French-speaking Walloons. |
| But I did witness him destroy characters who criticised our great leaders and act divisively in my party. |
| Apart from anything else, they divisively create social problems for workers in the shipping industry and residents of island regions. |
