We stand at a transformational moment in history, where there is tremendous potential not only to tear down walls, but also to build bridges between people separated by geography, cultures, and beliefs.

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Committees in the ministry are devising plans to tear down the walls within Japan's financial system.

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Dorner found himself surrounded by police, who moved in and began to tear down the walls of the cabin.

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How do you tear down these walls?

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He is asking us to tear down the walls of segregation that divide us and to walk into the daybreak of genuine freedom and justice that President Obama's election as the nation's first black president, and his appointment as the nation's first black attorney general, so powerfully represents.

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But the Internet has done much to tear those walls down.

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These now are the walls we must tear down.

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"It started on the evening of 24 January when protesters, I think, started tearing down one of the concrete walls in the city, and police started firing tear gas, " he said.

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