But no sooner did Barack Obama ascend to the Presidency, then the country split asunder.
BMW. In a Solomon-like solution, the firm's British nameplates were split asunder after a 70-year marriage.
There can be no more concessions to nationalism while the fabric or our loyalist community is torn asunder.
Microsoft has said that it would consider entering the phone game if its partnership with Nokia went asunder.
Everybody said there would be a schism last year, that the party would tear itself asunder and it didn't.
We share a common interest in resolving conflicts that prolong human suffering and threaten to tear whole regions asunder.
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Rumpelstiltskin actually grabs one leg at the end of his story and rips himself asunder--all right, I kind of like that one.
Religious animosity tears society asunder, particularly when church is affixed to government.
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The rest was a pile of twisted metal and planks torn asunder.
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Imagine families torn asunder by Scrabble and whole lives lost in poker.
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He saw those changes then take place with incredible speed when the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain was pulled asunder.
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Our strategies must be rational, flexible and sober-minded if we are to chart a forward course rather than be thrown asunder by the coming storm.
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Haven't they suffered enough without you forming teams with researchers from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Michigan to spread their private moments even further asunder?
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Or the Gemini stream could be a remnant of another as yet undetected dwarf galaxy still in the process of being torn asunder by gravitational tidal interactions within our own Milky Way.
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If the law passed, we were warned, Israel's democracy would be rent asunder as judicial nominees would be forced to toe the line of nefarious political forces yanking at their newly nailed on strings.
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But as any marriage counsellor will admit, there is not much you can do in a situation in which people are truly determined to put asunder a partnership which they once regarded as joined together by the hand of God.
Regional stability is thrown asunder.
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But I also know that we, as a country, cannot sustain our leadership, nor navigate the momentous challenges of our time, if we allow ourselves to be split asunder by the same rancor and cynicism and partisanship that has in recent times poisoned our national discourse.
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One suspects that the reality is more complicated, as in any marriage. (Who would have guessed that the lip-locked Gores, and not the tempestuous Clintons, would now be rent asunder?) Still, the task remains of making a happy marriage interesting and of doing so without the imaginative equipment and freedoms of fiction.
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