| As a homogeneous society, it has been spared the Shia-Sunni schism that is sundering Syria and Iraq. |
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| After 12 more years of long-distance marriage, his wife and children were sold out of state, sundering their family. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Another consequence of William's invasion was the sundering of the formerly close ties between England and Scandinavia. |
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| 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. |
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| In 1323 AD, Karelians suffered a forceful sundering as Sweden and Novgorod divided Karelian lands and their inhabitants by signing a peace agreement. |
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| His first poems were published when he was 24 years old, and he was polishing his final novel, The Sundering Flood, at the time of his death. |
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