UK airports yesterday, telling a hearing that the Commission's ruling was "riven" with apparent bias. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Second runway ahead as City Airport's owner buys Gatwick for £1.5bn] Reference
Will - like PeterS, I must query your odd grammar: "With a deeply rived country" presumably you meant "riven". From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
In the days of the 'last minstrel' it was appropriate to describe this 'riven' relic as 'Newark's stately tower.' line 33. From Wordnik.com. [Marmion] Reference
Rest, little heart -- one day shalt Thou be riven. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
Iraq is riven with ethnic and religious differences. From Wordnik.com. [How To Wage War] Reference
In the wreck and ruin of riven worlds, should I falter, O Soul of my soul?. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
Suddenly the GOP, already riven over Weld, was more deeply divided than ever. From Wordnik.com. [A Summer Squall] Reference
Most others are riven by internal conflicts or else have been heavily infiltrated. From Wordnik.com. [Bin Laden's Imprint] Reference
In a society based largely on honour and riven with resentment, it is a dangerous mix. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan's corrosive inequality] Reference
It shredded the credibility of a feud-riven and barely functioning government in Bishkek. From Wordnik.com. [In Central Asia, a new headache for U.S. policy] Reference
The world's biggest port makers prove family businesses need not be riven with disagreements. From Wordnik.com. [Grapes Without Wrath] Reference
Ye have riven the thatch off seven cottars 'houses -- look if your roof-tree stands the faster. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
A liberal media narrative developed: Republicans were hopelessly divided, riven by a "civil war.". From Wordnik.com. [Arlen Specter's Revenge] Reference
Though predominantly Muslim, newborn Pakistan was riven with sectarian, regional and class divides. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped On The Razor’s Edge] Reference
But they are a whole lot better off than they were, and than most poor and ethnically riven countries. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Peace A Real Chance] Reference
Moon riven: Last week the NASA probe Galileo gave us the best view yet of Jupiter's largest moon (top). From Wordnik.com. [Third Rock From Jupiter] Reference
The nation is riven by religious divides that have devastated the once spice-rich islands of the Moluccas. From Wordnik.com. [Broken By The Iron Fist] Reference
The global trade in agricultural commodities is riven with inefficiencies created by subsidies and tariffs. From Wordnik.com. [Now It’s the $6 Loaf of Bread] Reference
Their shared government was riven by an ideological dispute, not just one of personalities, from the start. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: He can still make us believe ? and then, pages later, feel sick] Reference
Even his most rabid followers are unlikely to savor living in an impoverished society riven with racial tensions. From Wordnik.com. [Africa's Silence On Mugabe] Reference
Thinks I to mysel ', as I've heard the Gairner's wife say, them that hae riven breeks had better keep their seats. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
Cliffs of black basalt, scarred and riven by the accidents of thousands of years, frowned like eyeless giant faces. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Japan, a society that prides itself on equality, is now riven with disparities, between, for example, rich and poor. From Wordnik.com. [If Paul Krugman Were Japanese] Reference
Even in the best of times, Pakistan is a tenuous federation riven by regional, ethnic, sectarian and class rivalries. From Wordnik.com. [Flooding deepens age-old fissures in Pakistan] Reference
His party has a healthy majority in parliament and the opposition United National Party is riven by intraparty feuding. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka's Peace-Torn Democracy] Reference
And he was ready enough to tell her of those who were riven from father and mother and sold for base coin, whom in some. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
Conservative journals and TV shows aren't riven by such guilt; they're happily unrepentant about their own rightward slant. From Wordnik.com. [Why Even Try The Imitation?] Reference
Suddenly it seemed as if India itself, which has been riven by separatist insurgencies since its creation, could be in danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Center Holds] Reference
The JOC "cabal", as the ZANU-PF official referred to it, or "junta" in the words of the diplomat, is itself riven with internal disputes. From Wordnik.com. [Mugabe’s Generals] Reference
One reason why New Labour was so riven with poisonous and debilitating personality feuding is that they all knew each other far too well. From Wordnik.com. [It's still all smiles at the top, but there's rumbling down below] Reference
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