"Every war is fought with the weapons and concepts of its predecessors, so we are now fully equipped with a magnificent armament for the basic rehab of shattered structures," said George Sternlieb, University Professor of Urban Studies at Rutgers University.
As the bulldozers trundled around the village, tearing tarps from plywood pylons, crushing tin roofs, and dragging the shattered structures into hulking piles, the villagers watched with resignation.
At daybreak, telephones across much of the western side of the city had gone dead, and the shattered telecommunications structure was a hollowed-out shell, with great steel panels and other interior fittings petalled outward by the blast from about the sixth floor down to the ground.
Crane and ball A heavy ball is swung into the building shattering its structure.
His mandible was completely shattered inside the structure of his mouth.
The quake left the imposing structure shattered, its signature white domes collapsed, its Oval Office equivalent a total loss.
Fans were variously elated and concerned by Flynn's glee at having shattered the careful structure of the novel in order to reassemble it for film.
"He was an elusive, anonymous, secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure," The New York Times reported in 1973.
Meanwhile, a shock travels into the subsurface, shattering mineral structures and leaving a telltale signature in the rocks.
Buffet had it right when he mentioned that what is needed should "shatter current structures and systems".
Looming ahead is the enormous challenge of rebuilding Pakistan's shattered bridges, roads, structures and agricultural and economic base.
