• Looking at the torn-up hole in the ground there where the tree had gone over.

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  • After you have torn up its 120-plus runs, warm up in the Delta's heated outdoor pool with indoor entrance, three outdoor hot tubs and a sauna.

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  • If the U.S. doesn't deliver, there is a clause in the agreement that states the Open Skies treaty -- phase I included -- can be torn up.

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  • He has skydived in aid of British soldiers' families, fasted in sympathy with victims of the Israeli assault on Lebanon in 2006, chided the BBC for being soft on Islam and torn up his dog-collar in protest against atrocities in Zimbabwe.

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  • While the lumbering relics of the computing past are torn up for scrap--or, if they're lucky, stashed away in a museum--games such as Pac Man or Galaga are endlessly recycled for use in online services, such as X-Box Live, or on mobile phones and handheld devices.

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  • The long main room of the exhibition contains plans from the 1990s for Berlin, Zagreb and Sarajevo in which he argued that these war-torn cities not be tidied up.

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  • Juana Medina lives in Washington, but grew up in war-torn Colombia.

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  • Just when Shafer, and Napa, were hitting their stride in the 1990s, the vineyards had to be torn up, poisoned and replanted with new louse-resistant rootstock.

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  • Now that the walls have been torn down, they are scrambling to catch up with free-market economies.

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  • New Zealand had been torn to shreds and their evening was summed up when fit-again skipper Daniel Vettori, playing his first match of the tournament, succumbed to a needless run out.

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  • He suggested that Alstom's contract be torn up, and that it was time to renegotiate the public-private agreements that delegate the running and maintenance of the Underground to two private companies, Metronet and Tube Lines (of whom Alstom is a sub-contractor).

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  • I'm right up the street from a Pepsi-Cola factory, which is being torn to pieces by people who are throwing the files out the window, they're carrying out office furniture.

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