On the surface, life returned to the edgy semi-anarchy that passes for normal in this fractured nation.

We have given up on your fractured, broken, splintered nation.

Ingavi preserved Bolivian independence and transformed Ballivián into an overnight hero in a fractured nation badly in need of one.

It was the only belief system strong enough to survive the collapse of Socialist Communism and unite a fractured nation.

A fractured nation of individual City-States that are almost nations unto themselves.

He winds up with a sincere, thoughtful inquiry into the neuroses of a fractured nation.

The new conflicts were expected to be relatively short battles with rogue aggressors or peacekeeping missions in fractured nations engulfed in civil war.

Mr. Haq, like most others leaders opposing the Taliban, spoke respectfully of the king, suggesting he was the one person who could bring the fractured nation together.

Christian politicians have already begun to sketch out a map of a Maronite Christian-controlled state within the already fractured nation.

In 1967, he delivered what journalist Elio Gaspari dubbed "a fractured nation" to a president elected by 295 people.