Elsewhere it was another bad week for AC-12's private life, with Fleming still in her motel and being presented with unpaid bills, and poor old Hastings left staring into the abyss of his broken dreams and shattered promises after choosing the morally righteous path over the way of cruises, corruption and promotion.
We may well be witnessing the rebirth of a bitter nation, the fruit of a land poisoned at its root by evils too fundamental to overcome; a country exceptional for its squandered gifts and forsaken providence, its shattered promises and moral squalor.
Promising to repeal the regulations if Labour is elected in May, Burnham said: "If passed, these regulations will mean that almost every NHS contract will be forced to be advertised across the EU, shattering promises [the government] made to protect the NHS from EU competition law and let doctors decide.
Since then we have endured failed negotiations, broken promises, distant targets and shattered hope.
Five years after Romanians acceded to the European Union, their hopes have been shattered, the promises made to them have been repeatedly broken, and their quest for dignity at home and in Europe has been denied.
Even the assassination of President John F Kennedy registered less resonantly in the days before the global village – and, in any case, the trajectory of the American politician's life represented promise shattered rather than hope fulfilled.
For many Americans, it has shattered its promoters' promises of safety, efficiency and speed.
The South African writer Zoë Wicomb, who chaired the judging panel, called it "formally innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and enigmatic in its effects", and an "extraordinary story about the aftermath of revolution with its liberatory promises shattered".
'Broken Promises, Shattered Dreams' notes that the Lao PDR is particularly susceptible to trafficking as it is one of the world's least developed countries situated at the center of a fast developing region.
By 1948 she was living in Hampstead as a wife and mother, contributing to the BBC, with most of her Oxford promise shattered.
A progressive movement is not compromising your core beliefs for electoral outcomes, which more often than not lead only to broken promises and shattered principles.
