Then came a rupture that has never fully healed.
It was a fateful rupture that effectively destroyed a broad post-war consensus.
It was a rupture that would come back to haunt Ms. Almontaser.
A pipeline rupture that stanched the flow of gasoline to Phoenix has changed daily life.
The action triggered a diplomatic rupture that saw Russia impose economic sanctions on Turkey.
The disaster caused an underwater rupture that left oil gushing into the ocean for almost three months.
"There could be a great rupture that would lead to banditry without control," said Mr. Torrijos, a political scientist at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá.
To understand the rupture that would be caused by the government imposing a so-called "British" bill on the rest of the UK, look only to Scotland.
She argues that this instant of solidarity creates a "rupture" that can forever transform individual human lives and, sometimes, entire societies.
Benteke went down in training on Thursday, as the team prepared for the home Premier League match against Fulham on Saturday, and scans have revealed a rupture that will require surgery and an absence of at least six months.
"The kind of ground rupture we saw in Alaska, about 200 miles, is the kind of ground rupture that could occur on the southern San Andreas, the part that runs past Palm Springs to San Bernardino," he said.
