Sentence examples for has torn itself from inspiring English sources

In this Indonesian nightmare, the small city of Ambon, once home to 350,000 people, has torn itself apart, with Muslims and Christians retreating into guarded enclaves served by separate hospitals, schools, banks, markets, harbors and government services.

The moratorium was adopted in what proved to be a largely unsuccessful effort to calm conservatives in the Anglican Communion, which has torn itself apart in the last six years since the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected the communion's first and only openly gay bishop, Bishop V. Gene Robinson.

To give thanks for the little you have when you have almost nothing and for the peace you enjoy when the nation has torn itself apart -- these are the true roots of Thanksgiving, a sterner if no less joyful holiday than we usually remember.

"The Labour party has torn itself in two halves, neither of which actually is directly appealing to the Labour voter," said Crowther, adding that any equivocation by Conservative leaders over border controls will be "a powerful incentive for people to come our way".

In the intervening 12 years, France had torn itself to pieces over the affair.

The Guardian XI, having torn itself away from TV and won the toss, has elected to bat first; it is time for the Pinter XI (reduced to IX) to take the field.

Following their victory, the Communist leadership, struggling to unify a nation that had torn itself apart in war, tried disastrously to implement a socialist economy throughout the country even as the defeated superpower worked actively to lock them out of the world economy.

The party seems not to have torn itself apart over Brexit, Momentum activists are a bit miffed that the unions stopped them reselecting MPs they don't like all over the shop, and the anti-Semitism scandal didn't blow up (one fringe event panellist noted gladly that it hadn't dented Labour in the polls anyway, as if to say, "So that's alright then").

War has torn families apart.

She has torn it apart.

The situation has torn the family apart.