Sentence examples for Once torn from inspiring English sources

SOUTHERN AFRICA, once torn apart by war but now tentatively at peace, is enjoying an economic revival.

This is because it is susceptible to tearing and, once torn, the tissue does not regenerate, causing permanent notches.

"The stabilizing part played by the European Union has helped to transform a once torn Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace," he said.

Countries once torn by civil war are seeking to revive tourism, hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality and adventure travel.

"Old papers thrown away, / Old garments cast aside, / The talk of yesterday, / Are things identified; / But time once torn away / No voices can recall: / The eve of New Year's Day / Left the Old Year lost to all".

Federal land managers have tried to keep campgrounds from becoming outdoor garbage dumps, and to teach people that what holds the canyon country together is a living skin that, once torn, can cause the ground to unravel.

"They are the reason I once tore up a newspaper and decided to become an MP".

"Once tear gas was thrown behind the family, they started running," according to Mr. Kim.

The United States once tore down and rebuilt an entire new embassy building in Moscow after discovering the walls were filled with listening devices.

It once tore itself asunder over the Vietnam War and maintained distinct hawkish and dovish wings straight through the 2002 congressional authorization of the invasion of Iraq.

He was also rebellious; he told interrogators that he and his nephew Abdul Basit Abdul Karim (later internationally known as Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center) once tore down the Kuwaiti flag from atop their schoolhouse.