A chance encounter with a mysteriously scarred young woman inspires a reawakening of passion with shattering consequences.
The roller rink where he works is about to close, his parents announce that they are getting divorced, and a good friend who everyone thought had escaped to a more exciting existence comes back to town, with shattering consequences.
This one, set in 1904, is centered on a petty theft that leads to shattering consequences, including the suicide of the wrongly accused thief and the burning of one of the city's giant mills.
In the case of a struggling family, decisions by one party ripple into life shattering consequences, even when intentions are seemingly pure.
In Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World a child's drowning leads to shattering consequences for the protagonist and her family.
"I don't want to say that Iran would inflict a nuclear strike on Russia, but any conflict between a nuclear Iran and a third party would have shattering negative consequences for our security interests and for our neighboring territories," he said.
It is important to recognize that most crops have low outcrossing rates, informal seed exchange systems, low seed dormancy and shattering (as a consequence of domestication), wild relatives in their center(s) of origin (since crops come wild plants) and that information on pollen duration and viability is lacking for a number of crop species.
The death of six British soldiers are of life-shattering consequence to their families.
In Australia, which is some 2,700 miles away from Guam, Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull warned that a nuclear conflict would be "shattering" and have "catastrophic consequences".
The story gives Shakespearean dimensions to the tragedy of an aristocratic family in medieval Japan, shattered as a consequence of court intrigue.
Both are "shattering cultural moments of huge consequence that are going to be with us for generations.
