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be riven

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To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.

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For the pilots, squadron life could be riven by unequal standards and simmering distrust.

And Tudjman's ruling party continues to be riven between hardline nationalists and moderate conciliators.

We know too well that workplaces can be riven by egos, aspirations and jealousies.

And China and India will be riven by conflict if the sexual discrepancies the UN projects come to pass.

Since then, the country has continued to be riven by conflict, though generally it has been less intense.

Containing some 200 place-markers, the map must be riven with mistakes, large and small; I know I am full of doubts about some of my topographical guesses.

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"Lightning Rods" may be rived with clichés, but they are clichés of a very deliberate kind.

The society is riven.

The SNP was riven by infighting.

But the company was riven by feuds.

The Labour party is riven.

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