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How to use the word divides in a Sentence?

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In forgiveness, bridges are built anew, Spanning divides where hurt once grew, It mends the bond, heals the divide, Bringing solace to both sides.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
9 months ago

In the face of the existential threats like climate change and MAGA extremism, House and Senate leadership has a greater responsibility than ever to avoid risking a government shutdown by jamming divisive policy riders into a must-pass continuing resolution, permitting reform hurts already-overburdened communities, puts polluters on an even faster track, and divides the caucus.

Natural Resources

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The [ available ] climate research shows that there's a clear risk for mass migration, social divides and inequality increasing, potential food crises and things like that, while this study didn't directly measure those things, we think it's a clear implication out of the [ available ] research showing that if well-being continues to drop at the levels that we project, it could exacerbate these issues even more deeply, or that it's a piece of the puzzle that we're missing at this point of what is the human toll.

Nicole Willcoxon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm a pro-life Democrat, i know it's a decision that, unfortunately, divides a lot of people. It's a very emotional issue and I understand that.

Henry Cuellar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I do think the impeachment divides the nation further and continues the fight even greater. That's why I want to reach out to Biden. I wanted the President to meet with Biden ; that's not going to happen.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's truly unfortunate because a lot of Americans listen to what they listen to every day, and they're only hearing what that particular source of information wants them to hear. And it really, really swings the overall mentality of the voters and I think further divides us as a nation, if we could fix that problem, I think we would be fixing a lot of the division that we experience today in the country because people are being spoon-fed information that pushes them even further in the direction that they tend to lean already.

Alabama Senate

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned — myself included — we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken, i ran on a promise to bring Americans together because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Whoever divides knowledge does not multiply ignorance.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

There’s a lot that still divides us, but there’s one thing we can all agree on is that Jamie Spears is a dick, and he should [not be able to] make any more decisions regarding his daughter, she is nearly 40 years old. She should make her own decisions, but you know what, this case should open our eyes to broader abuse that occurs in this system.

Matt Gaetz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

By vowing to define its teachers and students solely by their race, District 65 promotes and reinforces a view of race essentialism that divides Americans into groups based solely on their skin color, district 65 teaches its teachers and students that their whole identity comes from the color of their skin. It teaches them to hate each other. It teaches them not only how to be racist, but that they should be racist. This is illegal, wrong, and must be stopped.

Kimberly Hermann

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any vendor monetarily benefiting from vile language in opposition to law enforcement is appalling. Woke culture is proving to be a cash cow that further divides our nation, i am for rule of law and for backing the brave men and women in blue.

Pete Sessions

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The pipeline divides Europe, it exposes Ukraine and central Europe to Russian manipulation and coercion, it goes against Europe's own stated energy security goals, so what I said was that we will continue to monitor activity to complete and certify the pipeline, and if that activity takes place, we'll make a determination on the applicability of sanctions.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Critical race theory is a grave threat to the American way of life, it divides Americans by race and traffics in the pernicious concepts of race essentialism, racial stereotyping, and race-based segregation—all under a false pursuit of 'social justice.'.

Chris Rufo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Ten House Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022, a Republican majority will listen to our fellow Americans and solve the challenges facing our nation. Democrats, on the other hand, have only put forward an agenda that divides us — such as impeaching a President who is now a private citizen and destroying blue-collar energy jobs. For the sake of our country, the radical Democrat agenda must be stopped.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What we really want to do is create a movement to hold authorities to account, not just for our families but all families. People are murdered every day by these cartels, we need clout and support from the U.S. to stay safe. This isnt a political movement. Politics divides us, and we want to unite. But this cannot go on.

Julian LeBaron

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Businesses can no longer be non-participants in the communities they serve, we chose what we think will do the most to suture these divides and place our community on the right side of history. We have had to make these choices before when we felt companies whose products we sold put kids at schools at risk of violence. We lost sales due to this choice.

Mellow Johnnys in Austin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I appreciate our state legislators for having the courage and conviction to make this necessary change to our state flag, as I have maintained since 2015, Mississippians deserve a banner that unites us rather than divides us.

Roger Wicker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People are all purpose tokens, but you must remember each adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, integrates… in its unique way. It is difficult and unfair to use generalized laws.

Mariana Fulger

added by MF
3 years ago

There are a number of places where the policy divides are incredibly wide.

Bill Northey

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Its filled with acrimony and it divides the country like nothing else, those of us who lived through the Clinton impeachment understand that in a deep and personal way.

Ken Starr

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Iowans and our country face great challenges like climate change, increasing health care costs, and an economy that isn't working for the majority of Americans, they can't be solved with the same political warfare that is on display in Washington. Pete Visclosky is the candidate that can heal our divides, restore decency to the presidency and bring this country together.

Congressman Loebsack

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Does( an apparent) rise in incivility complicate problem-solving and lawmaking, more so than ideological divides between the two parties ? or does a rise in incivility merely reflect the increased partisan combustion we see every day on Capitol Hill ?

Sarah Binder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think Republicans are concerned about the environment... but the words climate change or global warming have become politicized... it shows this dichotomy of the country where such an issue like climate change, which could possibly be front and center, is another issue where the country splits and divides.

New Hampshire

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Clearly we're headed down a path where there is one party for older white Americans and then there's another party for people of color and immigrants, and this is very dangerous. It divides our society in a dangerous way. It paralyzes our political system.

Carlos Curbelo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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