Sentence examples for sundering from inspiring English sources

As a homogeneous society, it has been spared the Shia-Sunni schism that is sundering Syria and Iraq.

Europe's boundaries have been especially uncertain, and hence much debated, on the east, where the continent merges, without sundering physical boundaries, with parts of western Asia.

The ultimate strategy is to defuse political tensions along a fault line that could easily rupture, sundering the country once American forces leave, or even before.

Rather than sundering the party, a contested convention in Tampa "would be a fascinating display of open democracy," Mr. Santorum said, adding, "I think it would be an energizing thing for our party to have a candidate emerge who isn't the blessed candidate of the Republican establishment.

Lincoln was nothing if not a shrewd, strong outsider, which helped make him the one man alive capable of settling the old sectional divide sundering the nation.

The American republic was, in 1863, a dangerously isolated democratic flower in a garden full of aristocratic weeds, and if the Civil War succeeded in sundering the United States into two separate pieces, it would be the final confirmation that democracies were unstable and unworkable pipe dreams.

Critical but dull support services the IT helpdesk, say, or the property-management division that holds the lease on the bank's head office must have clear service contracts with other bits of the bank, in case they get sundered in a break-up.

He laments that the European Union's foreign policy is "both muddled and divisive", even as it prepares to bolster the continent's prosperity and security by reuniting what the cold war sundered.

Want them, throw them out Justice on the grass ReprintsIn Gitarama province, where perhaps 120,000 people were chopped or clubbed to death, "mixed" marriages are common, which means that many judges have seen their families sundered.

THEY are there as night falls, and your car lights pick them up as you speed along the coast on a new and excitingly empty motorway: clusters of ragged people who have clambered up through the barriers from the patchwork of ancient paddy fields which this new road paved with glorious intentions has sundered.

So no one expects that link to be sundered.