Many young Lebanese say they will not be dragged back into divisive conflict.

Vietnam was a brutal and confused and divisive conflict, whereas the battlefield in Watergate had to do with committee rooms and documents and tapes.

Each object is a reaching out from the living to the dead, an attempt to heal the wounds of the most divisive American conflict since the Civil War.

The most divisive conflict was primarily over the deep sectional issue of slavery and secondarily over missions.

Keeping the tone light when she can, says Auerfeld, has helped her negotiate some potentially divisive conflicts.

Without Mr. Hussein, Iraq would have few ways to damp down divisive tribal and sectarian conflict, and the country could fall into civil strife.

The library of significant works about the war in Vietnam grows more slowly now - evidence that publishers, and the reading public, may have wearied of that divisive conflict.

Occasionally, the larger slave communities elected themselves a başbulibaşa, who was superior to the bulibaşi and charged with solving the more divisive or complicated conflicts within the respective group.

Is there anything that the Member States of the European Union can still salvage from this divisive conflict over Iraq?

The accord allowed the city to avoid a divisive and disruptive conflict.