Sentence examples for broken up among from inspiring English sources

Thereafter, as the Zhou empire was broken up among rival states, many local styles in the arts developed.

For instance, Rhamnus, a little to the north of Marathon and a vital coastal garrison site in Classical and Hellenistic times, seems to have been anomalously attributed to a city trittys; and an ancient local organization known as the Marathonian "Four Cities," or Tetrapolis, was broken up among more than one of the new tribes.

Seven fortunes were broken up among family members, usually siblings, adding 15 individuals to the ranks.

Google points out that an individual attempting to rack up 1 billion hours of YouTube watching would have to find a playlist that was 100,000 years long – but as you can see above, broken up among the members of an increasingly connected global human society, it's a lot easier to see how we got to where we are today.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper will moderate the debate, which is broken up among first and second-tier candidates.

NHS Direct is broken up among 46 bidders for local 111 services, paid only 30% of the old cost per call, so already many contracts are going bust.

Böhmermann's vituperative poem against Erdoğan -- who in recent years has limited Turkish press freedom, implemented Internet censorship and violently broken up demonstrations, among his other authoritarian acts -- properly and rightfully targeted exactly the sort of leader any satirist should attack.

Feudal estates were broken up and divided among small farmers, who also received cheap credit and valuable advice.

The rest of the exhibition is broken up into themes, among them posters for newspapers, books and magazines; posters depicting new fashions for the modern woman; and posters selling consumer items or promoting healthy living.

The use of salvaged ammunition stabilised the situation momentarily after one of B Company's two Vickers medium machine-guns was destroyed by Chinese shelling, and its ammunition belts were subsequently broken up and dispersed among the riflemen.

On his death in 1553, the Sūr dynasty broke up among rival claimants.