Sentence examples for were riven from inspiring English sources

Towns and parishes of the north were riven by warring "old" and "new" bishops.

Both Conventions were riven and ruled by invocations of "the people".

The Iraqi political exiles controlled no ground forces and were riven by internal squabbling, General Zinni argued at the time.

The 1960s were riven by the racial tensions that defined the South, and civil rights campaigners were shot during protests to end segregation.

FOUR decades ago, global Christian bodies were riven by rows over where their main duty lay changing the world or saving souls.

New York provincial politics were riven by intense rivalry between two great family-based factions, the DeLanceys, who benefited from royal government connections, and their rivals, the Livingstons.

The SNP was riven by infighting.

But the company was riven by feuds.

The Labour party is riven.

But it has been riven by factions.

2016: Iraq is riven by sectarian violence.