The country had gone into a long bitter divide.
Reaction was muted on both sides of an increasingly bitter divide.
The first prison marriage of convicted murderers from across Ulster's bitter sectarian divide is seen by some as a positive sign of change.
Danticat s father and uncle stand on opposite sides of this bitter divide.
Such an approach has put Ms. Spivak on one side of a bitter divide.
The bitter divide between those who would celebrate the era and those who would condemn it continues.
He ended a bitter divide that has lasted 75 years when he made the offer over lunch at Buckingham Palace.
Conversations around the city illustrate the bitter divide.
But maybe the bitter red-and-blue divide that now cleaves the nation, which most date to the 2000 election catastrophe, is just as old.
So what's our bitter partisan divide really about?