1.   The issue divided the country and prolonged the civil war.

2.   The issue has bitterly divided the community surrounding the common ever since the complex was first mooted.

3.   And the financial issues dividing the players and owners is potentially worth millions of dollars more than what the jockeys and race tracks were haggling over.

4.   Anticipating that the issue would divide Democrats, he chose not to press for it as he headed into his re-election campaign.

5.   At a time when civil rights issues sharply divide the court, two more cases could tell where the justices now stand.

6.   At worst, the issue could divide the party and drive off potential converts.

7.   But great issues divided the parties in those days of carpetbaggers and reformers.

8.   But Senate Republicans said the issue still deeply divided those in rural areas, who oppose gun controls, from those in the cities and suburbs.

9.   But the issue sharply divides competing wings of the Republican party, fomenting a constant struggle.

10.   City folks might smirk at the notion, but the battle over hog manure cleaves the countryside the way the abortion issue divides the Catholic Church.