Sentence examples for it was riven from inspiring English sources

From the moment of its founding it was riven with conflict: agrarian vs. rural, patrician vs. plebian, Old World loyalists vs. New World iconoclasts, Indian vs. settler, German vs. French, slave vs. freeman.

Pulling was a classic British sitcom in that it was riven with self-loathing, and its situation – the gap between its characters' desire to pull and their capacity to do so – inherently fraught and fruitful.

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.

It was riven with destructive impulses.

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

It was riven with disagreement over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and had nothing to say about the captive nations of the Kremlin's empire.

It is riven by social, economic, ideological and regional divisions.

Only the Democrat Party offers vociferous opposition, and it is riven by internal disputes.

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

It has one of the highest rates of violent crime, and it is riven by bitter political divisions.

It's riven with absurdities, of course, both large and small: the leather blouson that Hunt wears for a disguise is nicked from a washing-line.