But if they see an outsider as a divisive element, Chrysler's share price may suffer.

As if the debate did not have enough divisive elements already, race was injected into the matter last week.

There are many divisive elements, even within Tanchico.

Many Kenyans, both black and white, think he hasn't helped at all, that his political presence is another divisive element in a badly fractured country.

The provision to ban the sale of 19 kinds of military-style weapons is among the most divisive elements of the $30 billion package.

The rationale used, one local music critic said, was that vernacular music reinforced ethnic feelings and thus promoted the divisive element of tribalism.

Wherever he went he was a divisive element, a wild card in the pack, an insider's outsider.

But this year's sessions were "disgraceful," he said, citing "the lack of hope and the appeal to divisive elements."

And he saw Celia Cruz as an divisive element.

In the last three election cycles, touch-screen machines have become one of the most mysterious and divisive elements in modern electoral politics.