How to Use "riven" with Example Sentences

1. Immature societies , riven by tribal passions , are doomed to fight for years to come .

2. The former transitional authorities were unable to stitch together a country riven by mistrust and anger after 40 years of ruthless dictatorship .

3. Just 16 years ago the anc inherited a country that was virtually bankrupt , riven with racial hostility and wracked by poverty .

4. Freud , meanwhile , believed that the nuclear family was universal , and that the " primeval family , " riven by the oedipus complex , had been even more repressive than haute-bourgeois vienna .