Sentence examples for riven by class from inspiring English sources

The U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment.

His simplicity was hewn out of a close analysis of others and their place in a society riven by class interests.

And, as always in a land riven by class distinctions, the press divided itself into two: the tabloid sensationalists and the broadsheet aspirants to higher goals, united only by their common readiness to call themselves hacks.

Out of this episode, out of the repetitions and accretions of Lucy's past that build upon its awful legacy, a larger story emerges organically: of a town riven by class and racial hatred, a river overwhelmed by effluvia, a place struggling against the supposed freedoms conferred by the automobile and the mall.

It is the difference between a nation with a broadly prosperous middle class and a nation riven by class differences.

The nobility and the urban aristocracy of Barcelona had been faced with violent social movements of the peasants and the lower classes of the cities and were themselves riven by family and factional strife.

CHICAGO — The people of Chicago are deeply riven by race, class and neighborhood, distrustful of the police, fearful of the growing rate of violent crime and united chiefly in their disapproval of the mayor's performance and their conviction that the city is headed down the wrong track.

He arrived in a place already riven by religious and class differences.

It was riven by violent and ugly class divisions throughout the industrial era, and those regarded as a menace to the conduct of the business of the nation comprised a whole class - all the people coerced by poverty out of a decaying rural way of life and herded into the raw manufacturing towns and cities of the industrial revolution.

Though Mr. Bush's class was riven by Vietnam and Yale lost a few men there, his reminiscences included no mention of the war.

The transition portion of the Arab League proposal, experts said, reflects a reluctance to see an abrupt government change in Syria, where protesters have been emboldened by the downfalls of Arab autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, but are riven by their own internal sectarian and class divisions and have no clear leader themselves.