Moreover, the electorate has become increasingly polarised along demographic lines.
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Sri Lankan society, in other words, is becoming worryingly polarised.
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Public statements of regret are risky in a rigidly polarised world.
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Just as bad, it can reinforce an already polarised political landscape.
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Now, as then, Brazilian politics is polarised between left and right.
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Those forces have unbalanced economies and polarised politics across the world.
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When it comes to leaving the European Union, voters have polarised.
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America's polarised political culture demands that people choose between these interpretations.
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General Apirat's approach, then, only divides an already polarised society further.
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In an increasingly polarised America, it's tough not to choose sides.
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The debate about how best to protect uncontacted tribes has polarised experts.
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There are many possible ways to slice and dice modern, polarised Britain.
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It turned out to be the most polarised contest Catalonia has seen.
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Some recent arrivals have brought the United States' polarised politics with them.
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As the Brexit saga drags on, Britain is growing ever more polarised.
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Meanwhile America's polarised public discourse has made it easy to cause offence.
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Opinions on the effects of children's digital-media habits are deeply polarised.
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When politics is so polarised, people no longer cluster in the ideological middle.
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Without the guile of Mr Rafsanjani, Iran looks likely to become more polarised.
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A polarised election in Spain on Sunday could further dampen the euro's prospects.
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These polarised views leave a lot to be desired on the scholarly front.
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Cats are not immune to the political rows in Turkey's polarised society, however.
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It can breathe new life into debates that have become stuck and polarised.
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Catalonia is more divided and angrily polarised than at any time since 1978.
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When politics is polarised, a love of culture has the power to unite.
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A polarised election in Spain on Sunday could further dampen the euro's prospects.
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The police warned a council committee in June that "positions are becoming more polarised".
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Like the rest of the country, the Catholic church in America has become polarised.
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But the countryside remained polarised between owners of latifundia (large estates) and indentured labourers.
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Confrontations have not eased, and worse still, our society has become even more polarised.
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Alas, a polarised Congress has passed hardly any public-lands bills in recent years.
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Yet the assembly itself is more fragmented and polarised disunited after elections in May.
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MUCH of the public debate around linguistic change tends to be polarised into two camps.
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Praefcke said a polarised election in Spain on Sunday could further dampen the euro's prospects.
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Analysts have said the likely outcome is extremely unclear given fragmented and polarised parliamentary groupings.
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Politicians that don't know what they're doing, a media that's heavily polarised and sometimes irresponsible.
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Fragmenting societies and polarised politics make it unlikely that populism's rise will be reversed soon.
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As president between 2007 and 2012, Sarkozy's high-energy style and abrasive manner polarised voters.
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They believe that the end is near for our whole corrupt and violently polarised culture.
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Although American policymakers are more polarised than ever, their fondness for tech-bashing is remarkably bipartisan.
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The difficulty for her successor is that an increasingly polarised country is more inimical to compromise.
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America has not been so intensely polarised by party since the aftermath of the civil war.
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The queen represents stability in an unstable world, as well as unity in a polarised one.
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Social media has polarised electorates; it will be hard to turn the clock back on individualism.
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Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly polarised in terms of their racial, religious and ideological makeup.
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This is partly an attempt to overcome the resistance to change entrenched by a polarised system.
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But the more the parties head in this new direction, the more polarised politics will become.
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The 1956 Olympics had been febrile affair, reflecting the polarised geopolitical backdrop of the emergent Cold War.
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GOVERNING a country polarised, uncertain and isolated from Europe, its female leader seeks salvation in faraway lands.
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But American politics are far more polarised and tribal than they were just 264 short years ago.
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A film making the case for immigration The issue of migration has polarised politics in the West.
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The polarised conditions are expected to linger as long as the U.S.-China trade war is unresolved.
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"When the economy is going through structural changes, the stock market tends to get polarised," he said.
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On balance, Lula's absence from the ballot will hurt Mr Bolsonaro by making the election less polarised.
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The messy spectacle of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court polarised American politics even further.
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One explanation is that more seems to be at stake in recent elections as politics becomes more polarised.
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As America has become polarised over immigration, politicians in California and Texas have staked out different public positions.
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On pure policy grounds, American voters hold far more heterogeneous views than their perfectly-polarised representatives in Congress.
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Behind the sound and the fury of the Brexit crisis, an election now beckons for a polarised country.
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Economists are as polarised as voters as to what a Conservative or Labour government means for Britain's prospects.
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Mr Rajapaksa's swift re-emergence, following an abrupt exit only three years ago, has left the country sharply polarised.
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Arbus's work was only exhibited in a few museums during her lifetime and when it was, it polarised opinion.
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That said, it is right that the influx has polarised society and that political debate is becoming more aggressive.
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It is also because India is approaching a general election looking as polarised as at any time since independence.
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In addition to the divides on education, and between cities and countryside, American politics has become polarised along ethnic lines.
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How is this possible in a country that is, as is often pointed out, highly polarised between conservatives and liberals?
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America is a polarised country, and an appeal to one side of the political divide can quickly alienate the other.
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"This incident will reinforce disenchantment and exacerbate the polarised environment," says Chris Garman of Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy.
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Although Erdogan already exercises immense de-facto power, Turkish society is heavily polarised between supporters and opponents of the president.
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Behind this heated and polarised debate there are real people making their way in life and often under difficult circumstances.
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"The big question is how will advertisers approach the very polarised environment we have in the U.S.," says Prof Calkins.
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And Guyana's is far from strong; the country has a history of corruption and its politics are bitter and racially polarised.
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It is beginning to polarise around issues of culture and identity in much the same way as American politics has polarised.
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The polarised politics of America, Britain and elsewhere, in which neither side can tolerate the other's views, pushes against that ideal.
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In a society as polarised and diverse as Turkey's, the transition to absolute rule risks opening the door to social unrest.
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For, he says, they reflect the polarised nature of the debate about the nature of automation and the future of jobs.
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Yet while all this progress has been going on, American politics has become more polarised on racial lines, rather than less.
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Meanwhile Glenn Beck, an American TV host, last month posited that his polarised country was in "probably 1926, 1928—Weimar Republic".
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With his poorly thought-out comments on abortion Trump managed a rare feat: he united both sides of the polarised debate.
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As the country heads towards a federal election in 23, its politics will become more fragmented and polarised as a result.
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American politics have become so polarised along partisan lines that only a tiny sliver of the electorate remains genuinely open to persuasion.
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As wages became more dispersed, voters' preferences grew more polarised, with the rich supporting the status quo and the poor opposing it.
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Nancy Pelosi, who presides over the most polarised House of Representatives in recent memory, does not want to give it to him.
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Because solidarity is about values and tribes, these debates—often between different forms of identity politics—tend to be polarised and visceral.
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In most provinces, in fact, the winning candidate extended his lead, suggesting that voters are more polarised than they were in 2014.
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Having polarised their supporters ahead of the elections, the candidates may find themselves trying to calm them once the election is over.
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With numbers of evangelicals broadly steady at around 25% and mainline or liberal Protestants shrinking quite fast, that leaves a polarised landscape.
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Germany's politics will become more fragmented and polarised as it heads towards 2017's federal election as a consequence of Sunday's ballots.
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"Nothing has polarised Kurdish society as much as this vote," said Bahra Saleh, an analyst at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.
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" Finally, there are the unintended negative consequences of benevolent design, which includes the "outraged and polarised tone and quality of online discourse.
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Even as the facts on a particular issue converge in one direction, parties can still become increasingly polarised around starkly different belief-sets.
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Seeking to banish the bitterness of a polarised election campaign, Mr Duque promised to "govern Colombia with a spirit of construction, never destruction".
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Ranko Mavrak, a Bosnian Croat journalist working in Sarajevo, told the conference that the polarised mood was disturbingly similar to the early 1990s.
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When politics is as polarised as it is now, there is a lot to be said for a non-political head of state.
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He fears that in Sri Lanka's fragile and polarised state it is all too likely that cynical politicians will exploit the nasty mood.
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In Fitch's opinion, constitutional reform has entrenched a system in which checks and balances have been eroded and has somewhat polarised the country.
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By focusing on some glorious long-gone past, Turkey's cultural centres do nothing to explain why the country's inhabitants find themselves searingly polarised.
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China's real estate sector has become increasingly polarised in recent months, with some cities showing signs of overheating while others have rapidly cooled.
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ONE REASON America has become so polarised is that its two big parties are increasingly seen to represent tribes as well as policies.
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"The coins kind of have a balance of 'Australiana' and aspirational Australians that have polarised the culture in a positive way," Tyler said.
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As societies have grown more politically polarised, many people have come to believe that the other side is not merely misguided but evil.
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"But you may have another election or a retry of this referendum, and the political landscape will remain extremely polarised and contentious," he said.
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But in the polarised campaign ahead, parties seem more intent on rallying their own side than on venturing into the increasingly treacherous middle ground.
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But the festival organiser takes a sober view of whether the case could serve as a model for dialogue in an increasingly polarised society.
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Its popularity remains strong, driven by increased welfare spending, but its efforts to exert control on state institutions have deeply polarised the Polish society.
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His latest book, "The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World", sets out to restore the balance, both in theory and practice.
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Expect, too, frequent referendums, less well integrated immigrants, more polarised political debates and more demagogic leaders emoting directly to and on behalf of their devoted voters.
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At the same time Germany's traditionally egalitarian "social market economy" is becoming more polarised as globalisation buffets old industrial centres like Essen; hence the food banks.
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The problem is that the adversarial nature of the system is increasingly polarised at a time when the most pressing problems require ever-greater political co-operation.
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This substance is ferroelectric, meaning it is polarised so that one side of a crystal composed of it is positively charged, while the other is negatively charged.
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Catalonia's independence drive, which has polarised the nation as well as the region, is a high-profile factor, especially with 12 of its former leaders standing trial.
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But recent analysis suggests that the part of the electorate that has become more polarised is not one commonly associated with social media platforms, but old people.
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They consumed much less news, and were thus less aware of events but also less polarised in their views about them than those still on the network.
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China's housing market has become increasingly polarised, with prices skyrocketing in the biggest cities - Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen - while smaller cities are grappling with large housing gluts.
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Furthermore, as America has polarised politically, many people have started to divide the world simplistically into "good" people (who agree with them) and "evil" people (who don't).
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A paper by David Barney of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Brian Schaffner of Tufts University, finds that after mass shootings public opinion becomes more polarised.
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The world we live in today seems so polarised and divided that we often take for granted how much has changed in the space of a single generation.
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Britain has itself been polarised by Brexit and, even though an end-game appears to be in sight, the country is still intractably divided between leavers and remainers.
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It is still liberal on lifestyle issues and favours modernising economic reforms, but these proposals are "harder to understand" in a "polarised scenario", says Toni Roldán, a Ciudadanos legislator.
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Workers remain exposed to hardship from changes in their economic environment Many have argued that these disparities have polarised people and contributed to the current rise in nationalist politics.
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Radio Birdman exploded into an unsuspecting Sydney music scene in 1974 with a raw, high-energy rock 'n' roll that polarised audiences, only to self-implode five years later.
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As with much trolling pre-Gamergate and pre-2016, ED staff consider themselves apolitical and equal-opportunity offensive, but this ambiguity has not aged well in our polarised times.
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In 2013 Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, predicted in his book "Average is Over" that the fortunes of both people and places would become more polarised.
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Dr Yu is not the first person to make a lens in this way, but previous efforts worked only with single colours, and also required the light to be polarised.
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In an over-centralised, economically polarised country, the emergence of powerful elected officials overseeing wide urban regions is the best hope of solving crises in living standards, productivity and housing.
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The point is not that training should be done only by men, she says, but that when men speak up it gives the issue legitimacy and makes it less polarised.
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What is equally surprising—and more welcome, as a reminder to Americans that the country was not always so fractious and polarised—he has built his career on bipartisanship and compromise.
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In a polarised, short-termist political environment, modern commanders stand out for their impatience with ideology, for taking the long view and for their devotion to the free competition of ideas.
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China's residential property market is deeply segmented and polarised, with prices many times higher in so-called tier-one cities such as Beijing and Shanghai compared with markets in hinterland cities.
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As a commonwealth, its only hope is that a pair of misfiring, polarised political parties 1,500 miles away manage to strike a deal to save it before the lights go out.
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The polarised debate as to whether copper has seen its cycle lows or is merely marking time before another leg down is, it seems, going to rage for a while longer.
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She drew applause from the Davos audience when she said opposing sides in polarised debates such as that on climate change had to learn how to talk with each other again.
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The Brexit issue has deeply polarised the country and many businesses fear they will be hit badly by a disorderly break with the EU in just a few weeks a time.
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Pablo Barberá, formerly of SMaPP and soon to join the University of Southern California, who examined the political Twitterspheres in America, Germany and Spain, found they were indeed polarised, particularly in America.
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In a social media bubble so dominated by fake news, information wars, and polarised opinions, Twitter provides a surprisingly conducive and welcome platform for the binary data of tracking your favourite plane.
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"Debate has become polarised between independence and the union, forcing many previous supporters of more powers for the Parliament into the independence camp [and the SNP]," says James Mitchell of Edinburgh University.
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"Many of the pollsters, if not all of the pollsters, have got it wrong," he said, adding that a polarised atmosphere and fear had kept voters from telling pollsters about their actual allegiance.
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Even if his ratings remain low, the realities of a polarised electorate and a favourable electoral map mean that the Republicans may well retain both congressional houses in next year's mid-term elections.
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Francesca Altunyay from Wilmington, N.C., feels lucky about her district's choices: The concept of climate change in schools has been made overly controversial due to the fraught and polarised political atmosphere surrounding it.
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It is not enough for economists to come up with recipes to reduce inequality, we also need to figure out how to implement them in an environment that is politically polarised and economically globalised.
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" Asked about the often polarised discussions about refugees on social media, he said it was "necessary to have these conversations, and to address the issues and to acknowledge it and work to fix it.
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America, he said a few days earlier, was not as polarised as in the 1960s, an era now often enlisted in comparisons, in particular for the violence that engulfed the Democratic convention in 1968.
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Though impeachment proceedings are rare—Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only presidents to have endured one—threatening impeachment has become as commonplace in America's hyper-polarised system as brawling in the Taiwanese parliament.
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But as Britain's politics become more polarised because of Brexit, many business leaders are feeling alienated by a party that is pushing through policies on trade and immigration that they say will damage their companies.
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Beijing has repeatedly urged local governments to take more responsibility in curbing home price growth as China's property markets have become increasingly polarised, with some cities showing signs of overheating while others are cooling rapidly.
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One of the larger Little Free Pantry networks is in South Carolina, where two years ago Katie Dahlheim, motivated by what she said was a polarised atmosphere nationally, built four pantries out of old cabinets.
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Although Mr Schultz claims that the two parties have become so ideologically polarised that there exists a group of fiscally conservative, socially liberal Independents that could prop up his campaign, such a group would be tiny.
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The Cybertruck's angular futuristic design has polarised opinion, with some analysts saying it had no chance of drawing in the sort of mass audience that has made pickup trucks the U.S. car industry's best-selling vehicles.
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Mr Erdogan has three aims in attending to the diaspora, says Sinan Ulgen, an analyst in Istanbul: to advance Turkish interests abroad, to seduce nationalists at home, and to stack up votes in his deeply polarised country.
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Dubbed the country's 'Golden Girl', she acknowledges that in a country where economic and political challenges have left sections of society polarised, her portfolio, that also includes the arts and the upliftment of youth, is vitally important.
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More recently, however, there has been a growing backlash against fake news on social media, which has polarised political debate, and the failure to stop extremist groups using their networks to spread propaganda and find new recruits.
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Britain voted by 52 to 48 percent in 2016 to leave the EU, and parliament, May's cabinet and the country at large remain deeply polarised over the terms of Brexit and even whether to depart at all.
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The polarised results raise the question – is it time for the luxury sector to move on from a tale of woe after the crackdown on Chinese consumption and the weak global growth which destroyed sales in recent quarters?
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Already the worst industrial dispute on Britain's railways since privatisation, it lends Prime Minister Theresa May's new tenure an echo of the era of her hero Margaret Thatcher, who transformed and polarised Britain by crushing its coal miners.
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In one set-up, a sender launches single photons toward a receiver, randomly choosing one of four planes along which the light particles are polarised, two of them associated with a 0 and the other two with a 1.
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It's a device originally designed to prevent decision-making that would disadvantage one of the two polarised political camps, but in this case the DUP used it to undermine a democratic choice because it worked against their religious philosophy.
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"It is certainly hard to justify buying GBP in front of the Tory Party conference starting 30 September, which is going to be highly polarised and likely reinforce the lack of consensus," wrote analysts at ANZ in a note.
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Some analysts noted that China's housing market is becoming increasingly polarised, as prices in some smaller cities with no purchase restrictions picked up visibly but were flat or declined slightly month-on-month in most of the biggest cities.
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Barcelona, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Thousands of people demonstrating both for and against Catalan independence shut down parts of central Barcelona on Saturday, two days before the anniversary of a vote on secession last year that polarised the wealthy Spanish region.
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Analysts say China's property market may become even more polarised in the next few months as falling inventories of finished homes could drive up prices in smaller cities, especially when the market enters the "Golden September, Silver October" peak sales season.
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In a polarised America, and now in an increasingly divided Europe, the play's portrayal of unlikely reconciliation has been perceived by audiences as a message about the possibilities of finding commonalities and of connecting with people of different political stripes.
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Mr Clegg: I find it very difficult to answer that simply…In one sense in mature democracies, however angry and polarised politics gets...there's still ample space for people to live lives the way they want in a pretty unmolested way.
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Such pragmatism would align business with the broad mass of Americans who worry that a polarised political system is contributing to the country's woes: there are substantially more Americans who identify themselves as independents (42%) than either Democrats (28%) or Republicans (28%).
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Of course there are parallels -- polarised electorates, concern about immigration and growing disdain for experts -- but the US isn't Britain, which lost its manufacturing base long before cheap Chinese imports and gave up its role as the world's policeman a century ago.
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Sunday's election, one of the most polarised since Spain's return to democracy four decades ago, is being fought on emotive issues including gender equality and national unity following Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid rather than matters such as the economy and climate change.
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The division between London, which voted strongly for Remain, and the north, which did the reverse, reveals a sharply polarised country, with a metropolitan elite that likes globalisation on one side and an angry working class that does not on the other.
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The most popular and divisive leader in modern Turkish history, Erdogan pledged there would be no retreat from his drive to transform Turkey, a deeply polarised nation that is both a NATO member and, at least nominally, a candidate to join the European Union.
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Yet Mr Trump, unlike his Republican predecessors, is attempting this at a time when the electorate is feverishly polarised and the unions both depleted and assailed by his own party, all of which might be expected to make them more resistant to his charms.
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Broadly speaking, Australia's energy debate is becoming polarised into two factions, one in favour of using the nation's abundant coal as the main fuel, and the other committed to switching to mainly renewable sources of power as part of efforts to limit global climate change.
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Indeed, the Australian debate has become so heated, reductive and polarised that some Chinese-Australian academics––and even non-Chinese scholars of China––feel increasingly hesitant to challenge the discourse of campus infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party for fear of being themselves labelled as its stooges.
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"It is evident from the findings (of the MultiChoice internal investigation) that the presently polarised political environment in South Africa and controversy around the ANN7 channel ownership demanded a higher level of diligence and scrutiny than was the practice previously," Naspers said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Mr Uribe's candidate, Iván Duque, won Colombia's presidential election on June 17th, but he inherits a country that is "divided, polarised and facing off against itself in a seemingly irreconcilable fashion", as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, a Colombian writer, put it in El País, a Spanish newspaper.
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But coalition talks are expected to take weeks after the first Finnish election in which no party won 20 percent, leaving a polarised parliament that reflects deep social divisions over immigration and the environment, and how to reform a creaking welfare system deeply rooted in Nordic social traditions.
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The insiders noted that they only saw a "transparent reader lens but I understand they can procure polarised or prescription lenses," that the frames were "Cellulose acetate Injection mold frames into an aluminum mold," that they came in two sizes (men's and women's), and that they had a P3 frame design.
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Mr Laycock prefaces his brief, co-authored with Thomas Berg, with a lament: "religious liberty is a God-given right", yet laws protecting both the freedom of gays and lesbians to wed and religious people to live according to their beliefs "are extremely difficult to enact in our polarised political environment".
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But changes in where Americans live and contradictions in their constitution—a document designed to work with many weak factions that has instead encouraged and entrenched an increasingly polarised two-party system—have opened gaps between what the voters choose and the representation they get in every arm of the federal government.
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Young used the term pejoratively on the grounds that meritocracy was dividing society into two polarised groups: exam-passers, who would become intolerably smug because they knew that they were the authors of their success, and exam-flunkers, who would become dangerously embittered because they had nobody to blame for their failure but themselves.
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His election just a month later showed that American politics had become so polarised that this did not disqualify him in the eyes of most Republican voters—though Alabamans rejected Roy Moore in a Senate race this month, after he had been accused of harassment and assault by several women, including one who was 2000 at the time.
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The leaders of Syria's local churches have generally looked to President Bashar al-Assad as their protector; and their feeling that only Mr Assad guarantees their lives has deepened as the conflict has polarised, with fundamentalist Sunni fighters, murderously hostile to all other faiths, on one side and government forces backed by Shia militias and Russian air power on the other.
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Yet in the meantime it seems the country will be increasingly polarised: liberal, Cambridge-like places on the one side; nationalist, Peterborough-like ones on the other and an ever-shrinking middle ground between the two, as the population bifurcates into those whose skills make them globally competitive and those who must compete with robots and the mass workforces of the emerging economies.
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It has a high floor partly because he has done an outstanding job of cultivating that base, partly because America is deeply polarised and because, unlike in Nixon's time, when Democrats and Republicans read the same newspapers and watched the same three main news networks, partisans today get their news from different sources, many of which exist to confirm viewers' biases.
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Britons shocked the political establishment in June 2016 by voting 103 to 48 percent in favour of ending more than four decades of political, economic and legal ties with the EU. But, with the nation still deeply polarised, disillusion over the complexity of withdrawal setting in and pessimism about the economic impact of Brexit rising, many in the fervently anti-EU camp fear an eventual "soft" withdrawal that would keep key ties and foil any clampdown on immigration.
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