Sentence examples for torn by a from inspiring English sources

An Iranian family torn by a custody battle and a criminal case.

From 1918 to 1920 Russia was torn by a Civil War, which cost millions of lives and untold destruction.

From the 1380s to the 1450s Italy was torn by a long series of large-scale wars.

A country that had been torn by a political coup found a reason, at least for the moment, to coalesce.

Kashmir is now being described by officials here as "worse than Punjab," another state torn by a militant separatist movement.

The issue flared into the open in 2009 when the investment bank became torn by a bitter disagreement between its co-chiefs, Winters and Black.

Conditions in the fields and camps are as bad as ever, but the union is adrift and torn by a squalid battle over the movement's future.

GALLE, SRI LANKA For over 25 years — until 2009 — Sri Lanka, a beautiful island nation in the Indian Ocean, was torn by a brutal and bloody civil war.

AS I sit in the lobby of the Chicago Hyatt, waiting for a 6 00 reception, I am torn by a dilemma.

But that December, while he was working with oil-drilling equipment in Seminole, Okla., his left hand was torn by a piece of machinery.

A short distance away a damaged Israeli anti-mine vehicle sits in the road, bent and torn by an explosion.