Roads, ports, communications — all in terrible shape before — are shattered.
UNICEF has found that such activities can provide a critically important support structure for children and young people in the wake of a disaster, when much of the world they knew before has been shattered.
The belief that each new generation should be better off than generation before has been shattered.
In traditional stagings, Hilarion can scarcely do more than a few steps before he's shattered; here, however, he keenly shows off his bravura and, still jumping and pirouetting, shows little sign of fatigue until finally the wili lieutenants hurl him into the lake.
He hasn't just dominated the race this year as never before, he's shattered the other competitors' spirits.
"They hadn't traveled a quarter-mile before the silence was shattered.
But that was before the air was shattered by the mention of virginity in "The Moon Is Blue". For the past 10 years, the once-unmentionable has been discussed at almost tedious length in films.
Ralph Beard, who propelled the University of Kentucky to two consecutive N.C.A.A. basketball championships in the late 1940s, and starred in the N.B.A. before his career was shattered by involvement in a widespread collegiate point-shaving scandal, died yesterday in Louisville, Ky.
Ralph Beard, who propelled the University of Kentucky to two consecutive N.C.A.A. basketball championships in the late 1940s, and starred in the N.B.A. before his career was shattered by involvement in a widespread collegiate point-shaving scandal, died Thursday in Louisville, Ky.
The president enjoyed a full 10 minutes in which to savour Bush's advice before his peace was shattered by his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, bursting in to run through the day's schedule.
