Sentence examples for remain shattered from inspiring English sources

But the army, which has been accused of engaging in torture and sexual abuse of detainees, retains real power, and Mali's institutions remain shattered.

Windows remained shattered and glass crunched underfoot.

The small skulls of children remained shattered on the floor.

The remaining shattered units fought on as they retreated progressively westward through the Transdanubian Mountains towards Austria.

As much as American troops were striving to re-establish order, Baghdad today remained a shattered city still groping for normal life, still in the thrall of looters and arsonists and full of wary and confused people with much hostility toward the Americans.

While the new format broke the mold, the first question showed how far it remained from shattering the old ways originally set by Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party the last time it was in power — from 1929 until 2000.

There came a bright flash and searing heat, then the upward blast ripped off both of Mark's legs and most of his left arm, slashing into his remaining arm, shattering his pelvis and driving a rock and other debris up into his abdominal cavity.

Although she was unable to write fiction after he died, inhabiting "Joyce Carol Oates" in her teaching role and on the book festival circuit gave her a handy container for the pieces that remained of the shattered Joyce Smith.

Ending our treatments was one of the bravest decisions we ever made, and we did it to preserve what little remained of our shattered selves, our strained relationships and our depleted bank accounts.

The authors wrote that they had undergone "increasingly invasive interventions" and had finally decided to end their fertility treatments, which, they say, "was one of the bravest decisions we ever made, and we did it to preserve what little remained of our shattered selves, our strained relationships and our depleted bank accounts.

(Shards of shattered glass remain).