This fractured warlord era presided over a mess.

Why are TV ratings even in our fractured culture always on the rise when it comes to football? 

If we find ourselves in a relationship, we will assiduously practice the arts of what psychologists call distance management. When the chance of reaching a truly happy state appears, we'll subtly discover ways to introduce a chasm. We'll have an argument, spoil a birthday, ruin a holiday. We'll find we have to do a lot of work for an upcoming exam or presentation, that our gang of friends needs us to be somewhere else, that we forgot to return the credit card or tax bill, that our appearance requires a lot of our attention or that we like to flirt with a stranger at a party who suddenly seems very attractive indeed. In both tiny and large ways, we'll know just how to lower the mood, scupper a bond and destroy trust. Perhaps not enough to end a relationship completely, but certainly enough to worry our partner sufficiently as to our solidity that we can be privately sure things will never truly fly. Friends may commiserate with us on our so-called bad luck. Psychologists will note our superlative skill at romantic sabotage. With this to sound a bit like us, compassion is required. We should reflect back on our pasts and wonder at the connection between our fractured bonds with parental figures and our disrupted adult attachments. We aren't like this because we're wicked, we've just been very badly hurt. Once we understand how our skill at independence was acquired, we'll be in a better position to see that it has in reality outlived its rationale. We may still feel immensely apprehensive at the prospect of contentment, but we may finally be able to admit that we are, first and foremost, acting out of fear. Rather than dismissing our partners, we may stick closer to a much more awkward truth – that we're tempted to draw away from them because we're immensely scared that they might finally be in a position to make us very happy – and that simply nothing so unutterably and boundlessly frightening has ever happened to us before.

Amani's family believes that Golshani knows more than he's letting on, saying that he and Amani had a fractured relationship and that Amani was thinking of leaving him.

And yet we continue to try to prop up this model that is just fractured and it's falling apart.

She had a fractured rib, fractured nose, fractured skull.

Number 6 is South Park: The Fractured Butt Hole.

And this is a huge test for this fledgling government to try and maintain peace across this vast and tribally fractured country.

Also, the regime is under pressure to show it can unify a fractured society.

In a well-designed democracy, power is fractured among many and is taken not with force but with words, meaning you must get thousands or millions of citizens to, if not like you on election day, at least like you better than the alternative.