Sentence examples for riven in from inspiring English sources

Hoping for Kindness There are some families that have been literally riven in the course of the park's closing.

Mr. Coleman promised that the state, riven in the days after Mr. Wellstone's death, would "come together".

For all Sri Lankans, their society has been riven in two, and for the neighbors who found they couldn't get along anymore, there is no going back".

When the call comes from the gods to leave Carthage, he is "riven in two"; his agony is much more developed than in Virgil.

Loach's movie reminds us that the Irish civil war is a uniquely agonising memory; unlike the Spanish civil war - evoked by Ken Loach in his Land and Freedom - the cause of the liberators was itself riven in two.

That agency has been riven in recent years by internal disagreements that have spilled not only into advisory meetings but also into Congressional hearings and news accounts, some of which have suggested that decisions have been overly influenced by lawmakers or complaints from industry.

The Labour party, which ran Israel in its early years, was as riven with in-fighting.

The Sydney move relaxed Lockett and rewarded him financially, but the Swans got something even more valuable; a bankable household name that could drive their brand both on and off the field at a time in which the dominant local football code was riven with in-fighting and being torn apart by Super League.

But the agency was riven with in-fighting, according to former members.

Worse, it has since been riven by in-fighting.The party has struggled to deal both with its loss of power and with the inscrutable style of its new leader, Mariano Rajoy.

Identity, geography, psychology, narrative: all are riven, all in flux.