(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.
Sunder
Definition:
(v. t.) To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.
(v. i.) To part; to separate.
(v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
(v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the British public had been consistently keen for Afghan translators, many of whom had taken significant risks to help British soldiers, to be offered security and protection.
(2) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future believes a generational change has occurred: he hails a "Jessica Ennis generation", one that barely notices race at all.
(3) Unless the NUS changes radically at its national conference in April, there is a risk that it may become terminally sundered from that movement.
(4) On an anecdotal level, politics seems to be sundering friendships on social media platforms such as Facebook as well as in real life.
(5) Which leaves Labour still seeking what the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala calls its "hand grenade", an idea big enough to capture the public imagination once again.
(6) The last century was extremely tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators.
(7) Over at the New Statesman website, Sunder Katwala, a director of Future, a thinktank which focuses on issues of identity and integration, wrote an article also critical of the coverage by some British newspapers but singling out this paper: "Perhaps surprisingly, it is the Guardian's front page which comes uncomfortably close to being the poster front which the murderer might have designed for himself."
(8) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
(9) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
(10) It was organised by the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research and British Future , whose director, Sunder Katwala, is former head of the Fabians.
(11) There are also the ethnic, confessional and cultural divisions that sunder Ukraine, between the Catholic and nationalist west and the Orthodox and often pro-Russian east, also recalling Yugoslavia.
(12) More can always be done, but the campaigner Sunder Katwala was right to note that while in the past football probably introduced many to racism, it has arguably done more than any other part of British society to publicly repudiate racists and fascists in recent years.
(13) The first concerns feminism's purported sundering of the nuclear family and responsibility for a demographic collapse that opens Europe to Muslim colonisation.
(14) Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the survey highlighted a national anxiety about immigration to which national politicians needed to respond.
(15) 9.10am: In an interview on the Today programme, George Osborne acknowledged Sunder Katwala's point (see 9.02am) about a couple who earn £40,000 each still getting child benefit, while a family with one person earning £50,000 would lose it.
(16) This one may assume to be due to a mesencephalic parasympathicotonic reaction as the basis for the occurrence of perioral and acro-syndroms after Fischer-Brügge and Sunder-plassmann.
(17) Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Nevertheless, Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, said the results gave reason to hope that the country was becoming a more tolerant place.
(18) Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future draws our attention to an interesting phenomenon which he dubs "the Farage Paradox".
(19) Sunder Katwala, founder of the thinktank British Future and a cheerful enthusiast for the Games, is not worried by the naysayers' grumbling: "Their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness," he says.
(20) The last century was very tough for Korea: it was brutally occupied by Japan, then sundered in 1945 by its liberators Kim is probably right to bet that China’s strategic calculus will not soon change.