| Then the heavens ripped asunder and showered evil and ill omens upon the face of this beckoning planet. |
| Denton's professed goal was to tear asunder the establishment's secret arrangements and self-dealing, to explode hypocrisies. |
| For more than 30 years, through periods in power and out, the party has been rent asunder by divisions over Britain's role in Europe. |
| An article in a foreign journal becomes a touchstone and then a norm, unless it is torn asunder by some path-breaking discovery. |
| The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory. |
| Yet, in fact, the election was to bring a prolonged phase of division and torment that tore the Conservatives asunder. |
