Sentence examples for it a riven from inspiring English sources

Or is it a riven, embattled, dilapidated country whose government is close to Iran and some of whose Sunni-dominated areas are under the control of a group that is more extreme than al-Qaeda?

It is his reactions, not Mr Ejiofor's wielding of the lash, that create the slaughterhouse horror of the scene where a female slave is whipped to a riven unconsciousness.

Syria entered Lebanon in the late 1970s, when it was riven by a multi-sided civil war between its rival Christian, Shia Muslim and Sunni Muslim communities, with Lebanon-based Palestinian militants and an Israeli invasion further complicating the picture.

Tension Between Factions As the gulf office adapted to the deep-water age, it was riven by a tribal split: engineers versus environmental scientists.

But Parliament, as it stands, is riven, and it is possible that whoever wins will seek to forge a unity government to stabilize his leadership.

When he arrived in 1990, it was riven by family disputes and on a path to bankruptcy.

For a number of reasons (which economists understand pretty well), it is riven with problems.

The main criticism of the S.N.C. has been that it is riven by internal bickering and has failed to attract a wide variety of groups.

But there's a side to child labor that is not only complicated, it's riven with paradox.

Geologists compare it to a sponge riven with shafts.

It has a frozen, riven, shutdown-driven Congress, professionally gerrymandered into incumbency, endlessly lobbied, and seemingly incapable of actually governing.