1.   Divided by national and political loyalties, the country is being torn apart.

2.   The country was torn by civil war.

3.   The country is being torn to pieces by conflict between fundamentalists and secularists.

4.   Ralph had been drafted for the army to fight against Scotland in a bloody civil war that had torn the country apart.

5.   An act aimed at tearing the country apart had managed, with some assistance from the network anchors, those personifications of national concern, to bring people together.

6.   And a country had been torn to pieces.

7.   At that time the country was torn apart over Vietnam.

8.   Before war tore the country into separate fiefs, Liberians, many of whom are the descendants of freed American slaves, were relatively prosperous.

9.   A look into cases of ineptitude and corruption that almost tore this country apart.

10.   A person who could bring Americans together and resolve the problems that are tearing the country apart?