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Libya has been riven for decades by recurring battles among regions and tribes, each vying for a cut of the oil wealth and other privileges.

The country has also been riven for a decade by intense and sometimes violent rivalry between political factions in Bangkok and elsewhere.

That area has been riven for weeks by sectarian clashes between rebels from Syria's Sunni majority and forces loyal to Mr. Assad, whose minority Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

He leads a staff of almost three hundred economists and other researchers, whose work helps the bank and the governments of poor countries decide on strategies for raising income levels, a subject that has been riven for decades by ideological debate.

Thailand has been riven for a decade by a sometimes violent struggle for power between political factions in Bangkok.

Labour, they say, is in a worse state to fight an election than for 35 years, riven from top to bottom.

The question that lies at the heart of "Of Two Minds" is one that, in simplified form, has riven psychiatry for at least 20 years.

Until then, Congo had been partitioned and riven by war for more than four years.

The central bank's moves seem to be calming a market that has been riven by volatility for weeks.

But normally it's hard to hear it without being riven by distaste for the man himself.

But I should mind my language: the backlash against breastfeeding is equally furious, riven with disgust for female bodies and their mad spurtings.