torn-up

Little children torn up and eaten by dogs are a sad sight no doubt, but not once do we look for the actual reasons for this plight.

So far, 2011 is proving to be the year of the unexpected, a year in which plans are already being torn up.

With the threat of contracts being torn up in bankruptcy, the United Auto Workers might accept scaled-back staffing and benefits.

The hospital was a stone house with remnants of fence torn up in the yard, and window frames and panes partly broken.

On a busy server where connections are torn up and down quickly, caching threads for use later speeds up the initial connection.

Credit default swaps are being netted and torn up; banks are trying to unwind swaps and other derivatives.

"Being the first one that got hit, torn up real bad, I think a flux of money came here, " he said.

In both cases, the Libyans merely had to hint that contracts with American or European firms might be reviewed or torn up.

When planets are close to the black hole, their material structures are torn up creating a strange centripetal nuclear fission.

To yield his best, man, like the soil, must first be torn up and then be turned over.

My dad (a chiropractor) uses it because his hands get really torn up after a long day.

Only now is the industry discovering the joys of "compression" , which allows offsetting swaps to be torn up.

The vaccine issue has torn up the autism community and diverted money, research and efforts, Duncan said.

Bulldozers have already cut a road through the cliffs, flattened sand dunes and torn up vegetation to create housing blocks.

If the government suddenly turns nasty, as in Venezuela, contracts can be torn up and private oil firms sent packing.

Objective To observe the clinical curative effects of treatment of large area of skin torn up by grafting skin during the first period.

In recent months North Korea has torn up its non- aggression pacts with the South and refused to recognise a maritime border .

That leaf was almost certainly torn up and sent to the incinerator.

And the army's ceasefire deals have often been flouted; Mr Fazalullah has torn up at least two of them.

Indonesian farmers turn their hoes to mining, illegally digging for gold on a torn up riverbank in Borneo.

Their center had torn up his knee the first week of the season, which meant that their tallest player was six feet five.

Streets were repaved only to be torn up again soon afterwards, and schools were renovated and later shut down.

There were incinerated vehicles and torn-up roadside shade trees and bullet-pocked buildings.

Some environmentalists claim that Brazilian farmers have torn up forest to plant cane.

some of the world's richest forests were torn up and burned.

In damp climates, real turf gets torn up by constant use. In dry ones, it demands constant watering.

Spinning is a type of aerobic exercise which also helps torn up your muscles.

Privately leading bankers rate it unlikely that contracts will be torn up.

The adults who survived were torn up pretty bad.

our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.

But rules must sometimes be torn up.

Paul torn up Dear John letter.

The tree was torn up by the gale.

By July Chiang Kai-shek HAD openly torn up the truce agreement and launched an all-out offensive against the Liberated Areas

Torn up by the wind

And torn up pictures of me lying in your arms

Treatment of large area of skin torn up: a report of 32 cases

Chances lost are hopes torn up pages

I've been torn up inside (oh! )

guess i'm all torn up