Sentence examples for shattered land from inspiring English sources

His trip was aimed at winning or buying the loyalties of local commanders and tribal chiefs of his Pashtun tribe, and, in time, helping unite the shattered land if the Taliban were overthrown.

If the Islamists were permitted to form a viable, functioning and effective government, this shattered land might be able to return to the community of nations — and supertankers will be able to deliver oil to the United States without fear of getting hijacked.

It was the end of a terrifying journey, from the destruction of East Timor to the squalor and harassment of an internment camp in West Timor and back again now to a shattered land of poverty, bereavement and the roofless shells of burned and abandoned homes.

During Secretary Powell's six hours here, he caught far grimmer glimpses of a shattered land, where some 270,000 Afghan civil servants are without pay, armed men still roam the main roads, and a faded color photograph of former Secretary of State George P. Shultz still hangs frozen in time in the United States Embassy, which was evacuated in 1989 as the Soviet withdrawal left the country in chaos.

Wealthy Lebanese, for instance, have fled their own once prosperous now shattered land to invest in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Mr. Mamdani's constant refrain is that the virtuous indignation he thinks he detects in those who shout loudest about Darfur is no substitute for greater understanding, without which outsiders have little hope of achieving real good in Africa's shattered lands.

By setting "The Whipping Man" in this shattered nowhere land, the director, Hana S. Sharif, encourages us to see the play through the lens of metaphor.

There are photographs of maimed people for sale, and Mr. Aki Ra's own simple paintings of people and animals being shattered by land mine blasts.

Rampant road building has shattered the Earth's land into 600,000 fragments, most of which are too tiny to support significant wildlife, a new study has revealed.

Sport, like everything else, is trying to find its purpose in a land shattered by the Abruzzo earthquake.

But re-building a land shattered by poverty and war turned out to be much harder than anyone expected.