(adv.) Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.
Example Sentences:
(1) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
(2) The players' revolt which split tennis asunder, shrivelled 1973's Wimbledon championships to a half-baked botch and kick-started a dramatic overturn in the century-long balance of power between the administrators and administered of any major worldwide sport, was triggered because a temperamental and reasonably good Yugoslavian player, Nikki Pilic, decided to play a well-paid doubles tournament in Montreal instead of (for a pittance) a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand.
(3) Families were torn asunder, and fathers and sons ended up on opposing sides.
(4) Thursday’s Sleaford by-election only confirmed the fact that progressive politics is being rent asunder by a growing divide between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas – and post-Brexit Labour, like Clinton’s Democrats, doesn’t have the language or politics to speak to rural, small-town England.
(5) Photograph: Penny Bradfield Julia Gillard leaves the press conference Photograph: Penny Bradfield Updated at 10.01am GMT 9.09am GMT Lenore Taylor on a "speck of silver lining for Labor" Guardian Australia’s incoming political editor Lenore Taylor writes for Fairfax media that Labor’s political dysfunction has reached levels unprecedented “even for a party that has spent much of the last three years tearing itself asunder”.
(6) As the lowest ranked of the World Cup finalists (at 62), Australia was expected to get torn asunder by an attack-minded Chile, and for the first 16 minutes —during which Chile scored twice— it was all going according to the pessimists’ script.
(7) Or perhaps, in expressionist black-and-white, the opening tableau of Great Expectations: wind blowing Dickens's pages asunder, then a dissolve to some ghostly Thames marshes straight out of a monster movie.
(8) They're getting rent asunder here, losing a World Cup semi-final 5-0in their own manner.
(9) In my book Realisation I’ve shown how our world view morphed from a body into a tree into a pyramid, then an altar and lastly a veil until science tore them all asunder.
(10) Their hearts won’t be wrenched asunder by baking tragedy, encapsulated by a lingering shot of some lumpy petits fours and ultimately soothed by plinky lullaby music and incidental twee.
(11) We are asunder, a predicament perhaps best expressed by the Daily Mail's Robert Hardman being photographed in a cathedral calling people "godless".
(12) Thus, the SNP is “divisive”; the referendum is “divisive”; families are “divided”; communities are “rent asunder” by “divisiveness”.
(13) Credlin has been by the prime minister’s side from almost the moment he took over the leadership of a Coalition split asunder and demoralised after its internal ructions over support for the Rudd government’s carbon price.
(14) One ever feels his two-ness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” This concept of African American duality is – writes Henry Louis Gates Jr – Du Bois’s “most important gift to the black literary tradition”.
(15) The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats joined the chorus, warning that if pro-union forces did not adopt a "sunshine strategy", and sharpish, there was a "distinct possibility" Scots would vote yes and three centuries of union would be torn asunder – a conscious uncoupling if ever there were one.
(16) Milan countered as Liverpool appealed for a spot-kic and the red defence was rent asunder by Andriy Shevchenko, who eschewed an opportunity to shoot from a narrow angle.
(17) In less than six months Chu has transformed the US energy department from being driven by oil interests asunder President Bush's administration, to one which is now turning dramatically to renewable energy.
(18) Setting out his concerns about a Labour party dependent on SNP support, he said: “The SNP has one sole mission in life and that is to pull the UK asunder and to take Scotland out of the UK.
(19) The Church of Scotland among others has already expressed concern at the prospect of bitterness and resentment cleaving Scotland asunder following a heated and emotional referendum campaign.
(20) In today's wars, many more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future conflict are sown, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn asunder, refugees amassed and children scarred.
Remote
Definition:
(superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
(superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
(superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
(superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
(superl.) Separate; abstracted.
(superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
(superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(2) Because such a possibility seems so remote as to be comic.
(3) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(4) Regions of interest representing the angioma, perifocal and remote tissues, contralateral mirror regions, and standard brain regions were analyzed.
(5) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(6) In remote terms (after four months) further improvement of visual functions was recorded, visual acuity increased by 0.3-0.6 in 8 of 15 patients.
(7) All this has been going on while 150 remote communities in Western Australia face the possibility of closure, thanks to Tony Abbott’s “lifestyle choices” mentality.
(8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(9) Clinical assessment does not accurately assess the 'remote' neuromuscular effects of cancer on the motor unit.
(10) Patients were divided into two groups on the basis of the absence (Group I) or presence (Group II) of obstructive disease in a major coronary artery supplying myocardium remote from the prior myocardial infarction.
(11) Cancer can produce a variety of effects on the nervous system either by direct compression or invasion, or remotely by some as yet unknown metabolic, toxic, viral or immunologic effect on the nervous system.
(12) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(13) In the present study, an attempt was made to isolate and identify pathogenic bacteria, fungi and parasites from the housefly Musca domestica collected in the surgical ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital and also in a remote residential area located 5 km from the hospital.
(14) In three patients false-positive uptake of the radiotracer was observed; two had benign disease and one had a malignant tumour remote from the scan abnormality.
(15) However, we believe these alternative possibilities to be remote.
(16) There was essentially complete correlation between HI, N, and either IgM (indicating recent infections) or IgG (indicating more remote infections) antibody.
(17) The detection of the organism at this site remote from the gastroduodenal environment suggests the organism may be transmitted by the orofaecal route.
(18) Consistent with our anatomical findings, unilateral microinfusion of kainic acid in or near the pedunculopontine nucleus increased the firing rate of dopaminergic neurons situated remotely in the ipsilateral substantia nigra.
(19) In conclusion, management of unexpected SDT during OPU include the following therapeutic goals: (1) complete eradication of the tumor to eliminate the remote possibility of malignancy and recurrence; (2) performance of adequate peritoneal lavage to prevent chemical peritonitis; (3) conservation of the maximum amount of functional ovarian tissue; and (4) exclusion of the possibility of dermoid cyst in the contralateral ovary.
(20) Little evidence was found for projections from other, more remote, brain sites.