Sentence examples for riven on from inspiring English sources

The embattled minority Democrats maintained fairly close ranks throughout, while the majority showed itself to be as badly riven on welfare measures as on civil rights.

Finally someone managed to retrieve his reply to Riven: "On four nappies," he wrote.

Riven on the issue, the commission assented to its demolition last month in a 6-to-4 vote.

The true chaos would be a re-elected Tory party riven apart on Europe".

How to approach this issue has been a matter of considerable debate in an administration that has long been riven ideologically on the issue of the United Nations.

Motorists were dragged from their cars and beaten; stores along a wide swath of the city center were looted; fires were set; a citywide dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed; and although calm was restored within a week, the city remained deeply riven and on edge.

A requirement of today's lone detective is that the police force he serves on be riven by faction if not corruption, so that he has adversaries on the inside to contend with.

Europe is also riven by disagreements on how to force Mr. Qaddafi out.

"This is delicious," he said as his only child looked on, riven with existential horror.

The rancor of a ground zero riven by clashing views on Islam and the United States contrasted with the heartbreak of the place.

There is no paving, scant electricity and so little lighting, no sanitation; people have to pay even to use the rare communal lavatories that often overflow or to take a shower, so their ablutions often take place on sidewalks riven with makeshift drains.