Sentence examples for have already torn from inspiring English sources

In some communities, utility companies have already torn posts from the ground.

But the symbolic effects have already torn through this fast-changing city in weeks of angry debate.

We cannot expect any country, not just Russia, to allow us to be a referee in enforcing rules that we have already torn up.

By Wednesday, one imagines that most losing punters have already torn up their tickets or gone back home, if they were tourists, as many no doubt were.

Firms have already torn up the post-war social contract by hiring temporary and contract employees, rather than regular ones entitled to bonuses, training and job protection.

But it is well under way: bulldozers have already torn down a 1938 glass structure over the Ara Pacis, an Augustan "altar of peace" dedicated in A.D. 9, and construction has begun on the starkly modern building and museum Mr. Meier designed to replace it.

He has already torn out the bathroom and hired a plumber to do the plumbing work.

We get going, clasping our route printout and a map, which the wind has already torn.

Maybe not the natural span of life -- medical science has already torn that -- but the web of human connections.

I don't see that as "Tear open" as much as "quickly reseal something you've already torn open," but maybe that's just me.

It stands tall, but this branch of the mighty Brahmaputra has already torn it down once and now it has worn away its rebuilt foundation.