It isn't likely that any major American playwright has been more attuned to the divisive, devastating effects of financial pressures upon families.

And although the two territories united in 1960, the the separate colonial legacies, and clan differences, exerted a powerful divisive effect.

After angry debate, with bitterly divisive effect on the country, the Three-Year Law was enacted in August, 1913.

In 2013, the city council of Amsterdam decided to stop using the term because of its divisive effect.

The safeguards also prevent local newspapers from being manipulated by foreign interests which can have a divisive effect on social cohesion.

In antiquity it was thought of as a counteraction to the divisive effects of civilization on the soul.

It would also have a divisive effect on the opposition Socialist Party.

This situation needs to be redressed in order to stall the divisive effects of homelessness, poverty, and unemployment.

Professor Kaufman argues that fraternal groups actually had a divisive effect on American society.

There is emerging a new cultural politics of difference which overlays the older ethnic differences whose divisive effects antiracists have always, rightly, warned against.