Sentence examples for torn land from inspiring English sources
"This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them," the Copper House Gallery's site says.
To the Editor: Helen Suzman, the courageous South African who campaigned for racial justice in her country against intense and demeaning opposition, lived a long life, fought a good battle and lived to see justice come to her torn land.
The Kauls are self-exiles from the violence that has torn that land for the last half century, a state of affairs that has clearly broken their hearts.
Heathens and bandits have torn the land into fiefdoms, and wild demonic beasts stalk the forests.
Marie cries while watching Julien sleep, and as her tears land on her wrist her cut bleeds.
Drug traffickers sometimes form their own pseudo-vigilante groups, and the state is torn by ancestral land conflicts, illegal logging and mining interests that create a powder keg for potential conflict.
Coal production involves blowing up mountains, tearing apart land, burying streams with spoil, discharging acidic waste water that destroys aquatic life, and disposal of gargantuan volumes of ash after combustion.
A Boeing 777 crash-landed, tearing off the landing gear and damaging the airplane beyond repair.
Rufus Norris's exuberantly energetic production takes seriously Soyinka's statement that the conflict in the play is not between the cultures but in "the human vehicle" of the Horseman, torn between the land of the dead and the yet to be born and the land of the living.
And Mecca suggests that Mr Abbas has little desire at present to take Hamas on either with guns or at the polling booth.Make it look real, and maybe they will buy itIn the 1980s Israelis did not let their divisions over the occupied lands tear their nation apart.
What Clare suffered was the fate of indigenous peoples torn from their land and belonging everywhere.
