Sentence examples for which is riven from inspiring English sources

This increased the number of recent departures from AK, which is riven by internecine strife, to seven.

The Rangers have been deployed in Karachi for several years and help the local law enforcement authorities in maintaining peace in the city, which is riven by political, ethnic and sectarian tensions.

They are split on the issue, though less than Labour, which is riven as much as any Western party by the Iraq war and its aftermath.Of course, the matter may come to a head on Mr Brown's watch.

By any objective measure, it is the Tory party whose MPs are divided against their leaders, which is riven by senior frontbench feuding, is openly contemptuous towards its own leader and is running scared of the next general election.

The film, featuring Sean Astin, Jon Voight and newcomer Caleb Castille, centres on a high school American football team in 1970s Alabama which is riven by racial tension until all 40-plus squad members accept Jesus into their lives.

Only in the second sonata, which is riven with disquiet and restless menace, did she fully inhabit the personality of the music; and again at the end, when she suddenly remembered the most important Chopin direction: sing.

And like the European Union, which is rived by tensions between larger and smaller states, the Holy Roman Empire proved too weak to contain over-mighty members like Prussia and Austria.

Nadal, meanwhile, has two enemies: his knees, which are riven by tendinitis.

And this week its leadership temporarily cut the association's ties with its large Chicago affiliate, which was riven by an internal feud.

Mr. Rajaratnam always remained close to his homeland, Sri Lanka, which was riven by fighting between its government and the Tamil Tigers, formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

In Yonkers, which was riven by racial tensions for much of the 20th century, Runyon Heights was, according to residents and a scholar's recent book about the neighborhood, the only area that welcomed black home buyers.