Revivalists' speech tore down the hedges around literate men's households, publicizing marital conflict to invading ears.
The uprising tore apart existing economic and political networks.
They have negotiated extreme circumstances that tore at long-held beliefs of who they were, who they had become and how they interacted with those around them.
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They were swept into it by one crisis, one shock after another; they tore off their old skin and ended up no longer able to understand the present-day world.
As armed factions relied heavily on abductions for recruitment, the war tore families and communities apart, in a way that could not be sustained in peacetime.
He took this map of the world, tore it into almost a thousand pieces, and threw it on the floor.
She tore it up on the way and distributed the pieces to her faithful followers in the street.
