Sentence examples for shattered base from inspiring English sources

Ansar al-Sharia, blamed by Washington for the killing of its former ambassador Chris Stevens in the city two years ago, posted pictures showing its bearded fighters walking around the shattered base.

So, you know, the institutional level of decline is dramatic, and the problems of rebuilding that are very substantial … Rebuilding from a rather shattered base is not going to be easy".

"Once, he slammed the receiver down so hard that he shattered the base of the phone.

His sister lay on the carpeted floor, on the thin, foam mattress she shared with her husband, so Fayyez must have had to kneel next to Zahra as he raised the dagger and stabbed her five times in the head and back: brutal, tearing thrusts that shattered the base of her skull and nearly severed her spinal column.

On one point all analysts agree: Having shattered his base by abruptly withdrawing from the race in July, Perot has almost no chance of recapturing enough support to become anything more than a protest candidate.

The Liberal Democrats could be set to win up to 90 local council seats this week, the new projections suggest, as they seek to rebuild their shattered power-base following the collapse of their share of the vote after they joined the coalition government in 2010.

WASHINGTON — The investigations ensnaring the White House have unified the Republican Party, energized a political base shattered by election losses and given common purpose to lawmakers divided over a legislative agenda.

The Israeli assault, called Protective Edge, coupled with others in 2008 and 2012, "shattered its productive base, left no time for meaningful reconstruction or economic recovery and impoverished the Palestinian population in Gaza, rendering their economic well-being worse than the level of two decades previous".

The blast shattered windows on the base and damaged a school across the street, but killed no one other than the bomber, the statement said.

The site lay immediately adjacent to the tallest building in Iraq, the 700-foot high Saddam Tower, which appeared to suffer only shattered windows at its base.

The spectre of Iran stepping into an American vacuum gets regular play in non-government media and in Sunni areas of the country, which still feel collectively marginalised eight years after their power base was shattered.