| What you are going to do is polarise the debate, declare yourself an optimist and make the pessimists look like dills. |
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| Below the stage is a mirror to reflect light up through the specimen and a Nicol prism can be swung in to polarise the light. |
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| Word-of-mouth propaganda and pamphlets on bovicide allegedly committed by minorities is used to polarise the electorate. |
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| In their experiments, they polarise individual photons in opposite orientations to represent the zeros and ones of a digital number. |
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| The catechismal teaching that taking a life, even an unborn one, is wrong may polarise people into two distinct camps, but it does not encourage the taking of lives. |
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| Derby fixtures stoke the emotional fires, polarise the fans and add spice to the bread and butter of league football. |
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| In Ireland, such statements quite simply polarise the debate about whether we defend the nation or build Europe. |
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| An argument based on pseudo-religious explanations is trying to polarise the world into good and evil. |
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| I come finally to the issues which most polarise opinion today and our Member States' Governments, to wit, the link between commercial liberalisation and the progress in the fundamental rights of workers. |
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| In the summer of 1642 these national troubles helped to polarise opinion, ending indecision about which side to support or what action to take. |
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| But the effect of the act was to polarise positions in the church, and set it on a collision course with the state. |
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| It is to be expected that in the course of such complex negotiations and debates, some issues should take precedence, others polarise attention while others may fade into the background. |
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| But they can polarise, presaging unhelpful battles. |
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