Satan doesn't want any surprise votes or divisive debates on the party platform.

The divisive debate ended with the country divided on linguistic lines.

Republican leaders blocked the amendments to avoid a divisive debate that might have caused Republicans to vote against the bill, officials said.

It is a question that elicits one of the most divisive debates in society, he said.

A lengthy and divisive debate on the colonial question followed, occupying three full days of the Congress's time.

But others hold different opinions within the national church, which has caused the divisive debate.

A16 Catholic bishops engaged in a divisive debate on women's role.

There has been an ongoing and often deeply divisive debate in Washington over how this economic future might develop.

Even inside the Republican Party, this promises to be a divisive debate.

Several other political leaders have cautioned against a divisive ethnic debate.