Sentence examples for riven between from inspiring English sources

Society is now riven between the memory haves and the memory have-nots.

"This is really a story about growing up into an adult world riven between good and evil.

And transferring the Fleet Street tabloid wars into the newsroom of a struggling paper, The Washington Globe, riven between journalists of the old school and the new, was probably a plus as well.

Hideyoshi was soon dead, but his successor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the long-running Tokugawa shogunate, had not forgotten the insolence of Okinawa, now riven between pro-Chinese and pro-Japanese factions.

In a French town once riven between unlucky conscripts and the fortunate few in the armaments factory, an investigator reviews the murder of a young girl, for which a deserter was executed, and possibly framed.

Because they've sent so many conflicting signals, no one knows for sure which direction either new president would take or how they would lead their parties -- which are themselves riven between left and right.

Additionally, the Church of England and the Church in Wales would remain exempt from the proposed legislation, deepening the impression that the discussion is so riven with discriminatory exceptions — between denominations, between men and women, between homosexuals and heterosexuals — as to be worthy of the columnists' ridicule.

Mosul also has been riven by tensions between Sunni Arabs and Kurds, with the groups competing for power.

American presidencies have often been riven by feuds between hard-liners at the Pentagon and diplomats at the State Department.

In short, the Kurds have started to create a viable economy.Yet the region is riven by divisions between Syrian Kurdish political factions.

The second is how severe those storms are going to be.Thailand, riven by conflict between the elected government and powerful protesters (see article) is especially vulnerable.