Sentence examples for crushed remnants from inspiring English sources

Their mother, whom they called Her Highness, killed herself with the "drink of silence," a toxic mix of powders that included crushed remnants of the family diamonds and pearls.

Law enforcement officials are trying to prove that Mr. Monserrate purposely smashed Ms. Giraldo in the face with the crushed remnants of a drinking glass in an apparent fit of jealousy, officials said.

"There wasn't much left of the decoration except a few bolted table legs and the crushed remnants of a bar, as well as parts of the ceiling lighting," he recalls.

Along the way, Chávez and Maduro crushed the remnants of democracy, rigging elections and locking up or killing political opponents.

Since then, Christianity has crushed the remnants of polytheism.

Since becoming President, Erdoğan has made a further turn toward dictatorship, crushing the remnants of a free press.

He left the Soviet Union in 1924, as Stalin ascended to power and set about crushing the remnants of artistic freedom and czarist splendor.

The multinational force will operate independently from United States forces, which will continue their military campaign to crush the remnants of the Taliban and hunt for Osama bin Laden.

But his death would raise questions about how far the Pakistani authorities are now willing to go to crush the remnants of the Pakistani Taliban — and how hard the Obama administration would continue to push them.

Still, the end of a U.S. military presence should give further confidence to Assad and his key allies — Russia and Iran — to team up with Syrian troops to crush the remnants of the rebels and opposition, handing Assad more complete control of Syria.

The commander of American troops in Afghanistan said today that he expected to need at least one more year to complete his mission here, namely to crush the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban and to build the foundations of an Afghan national army.