Then, when it came time for the hand-off to a successor, those fiscal weaknesses came abruptly to light, shattering investors' confidence and sending the peso into a dive.
When the menorah is lit, an opportunity is provided to tap into that miracle of light shattering the darkness and opening to a world of possibilities.
A few years later an uncle stepped in with some super trippy books that brought me into the light, shattering my burgeoning Satanic preteen witch program by introducing me to concepts of wholeness, source, and connection.
A Toyota Yaris, a compact car perhaps but still weighing a good 2,300 pounds, sat at a rakish angle to the curb, its windows blown out, its lights shattered.
On the day of the attack, the volunteers drove their truck to the World Trade Center and parked it on the corner of Greenwich and Murray Streets, where its body was smashed, its dome lights shattered and its two front windows destroyed.
The encapuchados soon turned their attention to defacing public property, leaving uprooted traffic lights, shattered shop windows, and burning bus stops in their wake.
Figures, animals, drapery, and landscape features are wrenched into physically impossible configurations; light shatters over the broken surfaces and deeply cut relief; and each figure responds convulsively to the individual situations in which he participates.
It really is a world like no other, with shifting snow fields and ice castles shot through with sapphire and emerald, a place where light shatters and fluted walls crumble conjuring shining mountains from the bottom of the sea.
The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion.
In their experiments, Dr. Porter and Dr. Norrish started chemical reactions in a gas with a bright flash of light that shattered chemical bonds.
