So you've identified the "thing" or event that has shattered your defenses and given you this stream of guilt.
In each of the last three seasons, his defense ranked No. 2, and his Super Bowl XXXV-winning defense shattered nearly every meaningful record.
The Giants' defense, shattered last week by Tennessee, finally pressured a quarterback in its sixth game.
Duke seemed to be hanging on the ropes until late in the third quarter when Hart sparked the Blue Devils and shattered the Clemson defense.
But an old timer and explosive defense shattered the dreams of a young team with a phenomenal regular season record.
These conquests — like other recent victories by the Syrian Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Kobane, Tal Abyad, Suluk, Ayn Issa, and Hasakah — have only been made possible by the use of massive US air power to shatter IS defenses in advance of ground assaults by the YPG and their Christian and Sunni Arab auxiliary militias, newly renamed the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
So the next time, probably in the next five minutes, when they are approached by yet another stranger who treats them if they are old friends, I hope they can be at peace knowing it's really just their own fault for making us love them that much, by shattering our defenses by causing helpless laughter for which we will forever hold them in our hearts.
President Obama was right to hand over this mission to Canadian and European command once the initial American strikes had shattered Libyan air defenses.
However, with most of the defenses shattered and supplies exhausted, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival surrendered the Allied forces in Singapore to General Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Imperial Japanese Army on Chinese New Year , 15 February 1942
Yet, Israel still hasn't had a Sephardic (or "Eastern") prime minister, even though most other glass ceilings were long ago shattered (Mofaz himself was defense minister).
But apart from a spectacular blowup of a munitions dump on a New Jersey wharf that shook skyscrapers and shattered glass in Times Square, defenses proved more than adequate.
