The violence America's gun fetish has wrought is polarising everywhere.
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For the demonstrators, defeat could be a permanently polarising moment.
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Who is he: Neymar is one of soccer's most polarising characters.
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Assisted dying is a polarising issue, and everyone's perspective has merit.
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It is also unenforceable, polarising and serves to pander to populists.
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Finally he embraced a series of eye-catching and often polarising policies.
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The prospect of Brexit is already polarising politics and breaking political loyalties.
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Why is the job of sheriff such a polarising position in America?
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This confirms our post bags, which show opinion is polarising and hardening.
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Rob Brown: When we were kids it was quite a polarising thing.
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His leading role in the Brexit campaign has made him a polarising figure.
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With so few MPs, the Lib Dems need stark, attention-grabbingly polarising messages.
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It is a stunning fall for one of Libya's most powerful and polarising figures.
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Last year's polarising American presidential election increased the country's fragility score by 1.6 points.
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However laudable her intentions, many of her reforms were polarising, technically flawed and unpopular.
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The June release of YE was just one piece of a pretty complicated, polarising pie.
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If he encounters resistance or starts losing popular support, he may reprise his polarising rhetoric.
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Moreover, the polarising effect of her election may not leave her much political wriggle-room.
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Meanwhile, the president remains hugely polarising: some 55% of Americans disapprove of his job performance.
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Mr Murphy's path has been smoothed by the polarising of the issue on party lines.
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"Joker" faced controversy and backlash during its billion-dollar run in cinemas, drawing polarising reviews.
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The leftward swing of the Democratic party is polarising, as is the populist tilt of Republicans.
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Perhaps the most unforeseen change, though, is the way the primaries are polarising debate within parties.
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Mr Trump was a polarising figure on the campaign trail; he is no different in office.
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Trump voters encountered in Wisconsin were fully aware that their presidential pick is a polarising figure.
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Everyone loves an underdog, but the fast-rising Tennys Sandgren is proving to be quite polarising.
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How far Trump the president will differ from Trump the polarising election candidate is not clear.
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The front-runners for president are polarising figures who might struggle to steer pension reform through congress.
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Mr Trump is so polarising that his critics brush off anything that might count as an achievement.
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And if anyone knows a thing or two about polarising TV series finales, it's the Seinfeld cast.
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A push for rapid social change, especially on contentious moral issues, risks polarising society and producing unintended results.
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Having had no seats, Alternative for Germany, a disruptive and polarising force, is now the Bundestag's third largest party.
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Margaret Thatcher was regarded as a polarising ideologue who lacked the ability to connect with voters or command Parliament.
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"We've learned how polarising the subject is in Australia," Mick McIntyre, one of its makers, told a local paper.
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For electric utilities and the auto sector it would be disruptive, potentially polarising the market into winners and losers.
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It may have proven slightly polarising thus far, but everyone is talking about it, and strong sales reflect that.
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Its polarising effect can be felt in our communities, in our social media feeds, and even in our friendship groups.
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The polarising card game has teamed up with Jack White for a pretty neat piece of merchandise for his Nov.
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Game of Thrones is done and dusted, wrapping up its polarising eighth and final season with an equally debated finale.
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THE run-off in the Austrian presidential election in May was the most polarising vote in the country's recent history.
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This has prompted some critics to suggest Trump's polarising persona could resurrect violent anti-WEF protests from the early 2000s.
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Mr Obama was polarising too, said Bev, which is true, though arguably he, unlike Mr Trump, did not want to be.
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Chain migration has also become controversial because it is linked to the wider debate about immigration that is polarising the country.
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He wants to spend much of his energy on issues like education and infrastructure, in part because they are "not polarising".
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This trend risks increasingly polarising the country between wealthy Qataris at the top and Asian blue-collar workers at the bottom.
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But they have earned it, for having long encouraged the sort of polarising invective that Mr Trump and Mr Cruz spout.
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Britain may be a polarising, unusual EU member, but English has become neutral, utilitarian; it is useful because others understand it.
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Memorable moment: Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin may have fought twice, with both results polarising boxing fans, but you know what?
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In a statement, it said such boycotts "undermine good community relations, poisoning and polarising debate, weakening integration and fuelling anti-Semitism".
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But the fires have mainly reinforced pre-existing views and gripes, reflecting the polarising rhetoric of the national climate change debate.
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But she has since found the issue to be more polarising than she expected—and Taiwanese society has plenty of divisions already.
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He sought to isolate it by polarising politics between "the people" and the "neoliberals" and by engineering a ramshackle coalition of opportunists.
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Apple AirPods are a polarising product, with users loving them for their style and sound quality, and everyone else hating on them.
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Moreover, Mr Lo adds, when grappling with polarising issues, Ms Tsai has sometimes angered both sides in a fruitless search for middle ground.
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What's more, they were playing for high stakes during the early 1960s, which was one of the most polarising times in American history.
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The forces of division seem way too vast, from partisan media and un-empathetic political leaders to the polarising din of social media.
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When Mr Modi was elected many business leaders (and this newspaper) winced at the sectarian and polarising bent of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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It ignores how asymmetrically the two parties are affected by partisanship, in which attitudes towards immigration, the most polarising issue, play a big part.
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Labour, traditionally Norway's largest party, hoped her polarising rhetoric would turn voters away from the government, a minority coalition between the Conservatives and Progress.
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The tussle for influence in Iraq between Washington and Tehran is reflected in Iraqi politics, with the proposed $53 billion deal a polarising issue.
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American politics will remain fiercely antagonistic, polarising the country on foreign and domestic policy, so long as it is defined in such visceral terms.
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Fashion house Balenciaga just sent models down the runway in Paris wearing platform Crocs, elevating the polarising squishy foam shoe to new heights — quite literally.
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This makes such crystals useful for detecting the small polarising effect certain axions would have on atomic nuclei—again, assuming that they really do exist.
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Portrait d'une négresse (1800) Left until the last few moments of the video comes Marie-Guillemine Benoist's polarising work Portrait of a Negress from 1800.
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Also available as Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 307 "The Polarising Ompact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks".
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Bilingual teaching was always intended as a bridge to English, but in a polarising campaign it was portrayed as allowing kids to avoid English altogether.
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Russia and Turkey would allow him to stay until the next presidential election when he would quit in favour of a less polarising Alawite candidate.
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"It's polarising the whole area between sectarianism and other regional conflict, which really doesn't help now when we're fighting this enemy, Daesh," Al-Abadi said.
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Small donors are often attracted to polarising candidates, which suggests that they may be more extreme in their political views than their large donor counterparts.
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The polarising Howard was sacked in November in the wake of a scathing governance review of CA following the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.
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The fairest opposition to Mr Blair's gambit comes from keen Remainers who fear that such polarising interventions make it harder for them to win a hearing.
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And while brutalism still leaves many cold, and Robin Hood Gardens is a particularly polarising incarnation of that style, contemporary historians of the period are excited.
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The light-handed Australian privatisation model, criticised by the country's competition regulator, is just as polarising for industry experts as it is with airports and airlines.
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America's entry into the second world war after Pearl Harbour or its participation in the Vietnam war were highly polarising moments in the country's political life.
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Such strategies are polarising; Pocari won fans in Hong Kong, but after a backlash from Chinese state media, the brand distanced itself from the earlier statements.
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"Reactions are extreme and polarising as social media are still (relatively) 'new'," Dr Mariann Hardey, Associate Professor in Digital Information Systems at Durham University, told Mashable.
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"The public protector is polarising politics and exacerbating factionalism in the ANC," said Ebrahim Fakir, an analyst at the Johannesburg-based Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute.
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Supporters of the move said that at a time of polarising tension in the Orthodox world, the Ecumenical Patriarchate needed to rally and streamline its forces.
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Full-face coverings such as niqabs and burqas are a polarising issue across Europe, with some arguing that they symbolise discrimination against women and should be outlawed.
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Last October, a masked swordsman in Sweden killed two people with immigrant backgrounds in a school attack that fuelled fears that the refugee influx is polarising public opinion.
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These demonstrations were driven in part by strong feelings about polarising issues, but also by a sense that politics had been taken over by a professional political class.
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It is worth noting that vTaiwan has not been tested with a polarising, offline issue such as abortion; it's so far only been used for new, digital issues.
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The idea is to encourage Irish people to have private conversations with undecided voters and in the process avoid the polarising and inflammatory language that characterises online debate.
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"Now is the time to think big, when the world is polarising to the east and west, it is time to become global," Li told the Sibos conference.
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Twitter 101: if you're a hardline supporter on one side of a controversial issue, nothing will save you from trolling if you show any affection for another polarising topic.
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His wild voter-fraud conspiracy theories made him perhaps Kansas's most polarising politician, which is likely to help the Democratic Party's more conciliatory candidate, Laura Kelly, a state legislator.
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According to Tvrtko Jakovina, a historian at Zagreb University, one wing of the HDZ has launched a "social and cultural revolution" to gain advantage by polarising the political landscape.
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Gobbetti, who was previously at French house Celine, says fashion is polarising between the mass market, home to Spain's Inditex and Sweden's H&M, and top-end luxury brands.
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" But he also noted the film will be quite polarising for hardcore fans and general audiences alike, saying, "Some 'shippers will be frustrated as hell; others happy as clams.
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That takes courage—the courage to step outside France's party system, to defend complex arguments against polarising sound bites and to stand for optimism in an age of identity politics.
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The Macron phenomenon suggests something more important too: that there may be a far broader centre ground in France than is usually visible under its polarising two-round presidential system.
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His dismissal proved polarising, igniting a debate that travelled well beyond the rugby pitch and became a touchstone for some in Australia who felt freedom of speech was being eroded.
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Watching a bunch of TV as self-care is a pretty polarising strategy — although there's a lot to be said for the undeniable comfort that comes with a Fleabag binge.
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The billionaire businessman said he would vote for Zeman, 73, for his honesty, political experience and defense of national interests, despite what he described as Zeman's "polarising" impact on Czech society.
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He was one of the most polarising figures in his continent's history, a giant of African liberation, whose rule finally ended in ignominy when he was overthrown by his own army.
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But if unresolved, they will leave deep questions over the legitimacy of a vote which split the electorate down the middle, and whose polarising campaign drew criticism and concern from European allies.
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Durian, the pungent (and highly polarising) fruit has often caused people to dry-retch when its odour hits their nostrils, but over the weekend, the fruit caused an entire police-assisted evacuation.
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After a rancorous and a polarising election campaign, the focus shifts back to an economy that is slowing, even as the U.S.-China trade war rages and global oil prices tick higher.
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While she nevertheless wants to serve her full term as chancellor until 2021, her country and the rest of Europe will inevitably start looking ahead to what could be a more polarising era.
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The investigation comes at a time of polarising debate in India's fiercely competitive TV news industry, where channels sometimes test the boundaries of responsible journalism and prime-time talk shows often turn rowdy.
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a columnist in the daily Indian Express who rarely uses such blunt language, describes the Hindu priest-turned-politician as "the single most divisive, abusive, polarising figure in UP politics".
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A former Indonesian education minister won the race for Jakarta governor on Wednesday after a polarising campaign that cast a shadow over Indonesia's reputation for practicing a tolerant form of Islam.
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Being on tour is a very polarising thing—you're on tour and seeing people all the time in a hyper-social situation, and then you're at home in the studio with long periods of isolation.
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In the autumn she beat Friedrich Merz, a swaggering economic liberal from the Rhineland, to the CDU leadership, an anteroom to the chancellorship, by styling herself as a bridge-builder on polarising subjects like migration.
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Unsurprisingly, the most polarising groups are those that tend to divide the major parties: Democrats, for instance, are not big fans of the National Rifle Association, while Republicans tend to frown upon Black Lives Matter.
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He was one of the most polarising figures in African history, a giant of national liberation movements whose 37-year rule ended in ignominy when he was overthrown by his own army in November 2017.
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JALESWAR, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in Assam, waging a polarising election campaign in a bid to form its first government there.
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Former education minister Anies Baswedan beat incumbent Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama by a big margin on Wednesday, after a polarising campaign that cast a shadow over Indonesia's reputation for practicing a tolerant form of Islam.
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The issuing of the country's first driver's licenses for women also comes just a few days after a polarising Vogue Arabia cover featuring Princess Hayfa Bint Abdullah Al Saud in the driving seat of a car.
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But in a contest featuring a centrist and a polarising figure like Mr Trump or Ted Cruz, Mr Bloomberg would likely share the reasonable-person vote with Mrs Clinton—to the benefit of the GOP nominee.
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He was one of the most polarising figures in the history of his continent, a giant of Africa's liberation struggle against colonialism, whose rule finally ended in ignominy when he was overthrown by his own army.
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DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a show of unity to honour the Islamic Republic's polarising pragmatist.
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On the other hand, it was the story of a child who found huge fame at an unfathomably early age, and seemed to spend the rest of their teens and twenties trying to cope with the polarising aftermath.
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POLARISING OIL DEAL Relations between Washington and Tehran have deteriorated since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew last year from a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers agreed by his predecessor Barack Obama, and reimposed and extended sanctions.
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From blatant lies to partially true polarising content to violent hate speech, the platforms built for the "next billion" internet users face the same challenges for which American social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp are facing intense scrutiny.
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In Washington, the top White House economic adviser accused Canada's prime minister on Sunday of betraying Trump with "polarising" statements on U.S. trade policy that risked undermining the American leader on the eve of a historic summit with North Korea.
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Signs of weakness in the labour market in the autumn - when Britain faced deep uncertainty about Brexit and the outcome of a polarising national election - prompted two Bank of England interest-rate setters to vote for a cut to borrowing costs.
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Police said 15 people were detained following reports of disturbances at several polling stations in the city of 10 million people, after what the Jakarta Post this week dubbed "the dirtiest, most polarising and most divisive" election campaign the nation had ever seen.
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One reason may be the baleful influence of IS which, in its formative years as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), deliberately aimed to kill Shias, the country's largest group, with the intention of polarising the population and driving Sunni Muslims into its arms.
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U.S. S&P500 futures dropped 0.4 percent as Democrats are seen as likely to pick up a few closely-contested seats on the East Coast in the congressional elections, which is billed as a referendum on President Donald Trump's polarising style and "America First" policies.
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Although things have not yet reached that point, these poll results suggest something sinister: it's perfectly conceivable that the murderous van-drivers and knife-wielders who claim to speak for Muslims in Europe could enjoy a similar "success" in polarising sentiment across the continent.
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While the High Court may yet rule against the postal plebiscite, the response to The Project's treatment of the issue is a small sign of just how divisive and polarising the debate could be over the next two months if the vote goes ahead.
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There's also the tricky business of arbitrating between Europe's traditional creative industries and the predominantly US sharing platforms that have gotten fat off of the back of others' content — a battle so fraught it's already yielded an EU copyright reform as polarising as Brexit.
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"I see him as a strong personality which is polarising society, but mainly as someone who does not steal, who has results, who keeps his word... and unlike other politicians, he does not live from politics, he lives for politics," Babis told a news conference.
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He also warned that social media was causing people to have entirely different realities, and said leaders need to do more to ensure a way to find a common space on the internet — a possible dig at tweeter-in-chief Donald Trump, and his screeds that many people find polarising.
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Declared a national hero within hours of his death by the long-serving aide who succeeded him as president, Mugabe was one of the most polarising figures in his continent's history - a giant of African liberation whose regime finally ended in ignominy when he was overthrown by his own army.
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An unapologetic populist with a deep liberal streak who talks bluntly about helping the poor and taking on powerful interests like oil and gas, he delivers his message in a thick Southern drawl and has been careful not to associate himself too closely with Democrats like Mrs Clinton and Barack Obama that would be polarising in Louisiana.
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Labelling Wilder a bum, as well as breaking out into impromptu song as he so regularly does, Fury provided the American public with their first real taste of the polarising persona of the "Gypsy King", despite Fury having already knocked out Steve Cunningham in Madison Square Garden back in 2013—his sole fight in the States thus far.
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The tweedy Mr Fillon, who lives in a grand manor house complete with a chapel and a horse, would be the more polarising figure, likely to provoke strikes and street protests—though his team insists that, if he can resist the popular outrage at the salaries he has paid to his family, he can face down the streets on matters of policy, too.
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Notably, that architecture has not necessarily been particularly successful—as current tensions show—but has proved to be flexible and stable enough to offer Beijing sufficient room to secure its interests without paying the cost of acting as a security guarantor—a cost that may be particularly high in a region characterized by fragmentation, political turbulence, and the still strong and polarising presence of the United States.
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