Sentence examples for a war shattered from inspiring English sources

The 1948 Games were the first to be held in 12 years due to the second world war, and it was probably to be hoped that the spirit of the Games - the idea expressed in the above picture that "not winning but taking part...not conquering but fighting well" - could help to heal a war shattered world (although Germany and Japan were not invited to attend).

A decade of civil war shattered group identities in Afghanistan, leaving a jarring mix of attitudes toward nation, tribe and clan.

Psychiatrists, meanwhile, were able to create an entire sub-discipline out of the perception that war shattered the mind, but in an intellectually absorbing way.

The Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran war, shattered Mr. Achebe's hopes for a more promising postcolonial future, and deeply affected his literary output.

The war shattered the rescuing family too.

The war shattered the world that he knew and, as he later wrote, "visibly destroyed that nursery of living culture".

The war shattered the Chechen economy and left behind armed, unemployed and brutalized young Chechens.

Moreover, the end of the Cold War shattered the long-standing bipartisan consensus on foreign policy and revived tensions between the executive and legislative branches over the extent of executive war-making power.

The long civil war shattered the social and political order of the early Abbasid state, and a new system began to emerge under al-Ma'mun, which would characterize the middle period of the Abbasid Caliphate.

But that metaphor of the ecstatic wedding of art and power darkens when the First World War shatters the aristocratic idyll.

But after volunteering for the Marines out of high school so he could fight in Vietnam, Kovic was soon exposed to the unheroic horrors of actual war, shattering his naive image of war's nobility that he had carried since a child.