To a nation torn by debates about testing, it might.
He added: "His crimes left communities broken and a nation torn apart.
Mary, a devout Catholic in a nation torn by religious differences, remains extraordinarily popular.
Instead, countless voices - whether in the media or outside - commended a multicultural team for having helped to harmonise a nation sometimes torn by racial differences.
This is an important part of peace building in a nation torn by ethnic conflict.
Obviously, there is a message in all of this, something about a nation torn, a public office in ruins, an economy built on specters.
Despite the nation being torn apart by civil war, Iraqi football in 2007 went as scheduled for the most part.
Chad's victorious rebel leader declared himself President today, promising freedom and justice to a nation torn by conflict for more than 20 years.
Similar privileges have been granted to people from nations torn by violence in Eastern Europe and Africa.
Setting his drama in 1988, writer-director Dehlavi makes this human tragedy the epicentre of a nation torn asunder by religious and political pressures.