Sentence examples for would have shattered from inspiring English sources

Shock therapy would have shattered the lifetime notion, producing a big rise in unemployment.

A successful kick would have shattered the Ivy record of 54 yards, set in 1965.

(Ending the war swiftly was part of that new order, Mr Bush argued: occupying Iraq would have shattered the coalition and placed America outside international law).

She came down reluctantly, cascading first on the head of Shiva in order to break her fall, which would have shattered the Earth.

If it had been stony in composition, as most asteroids are, it would have shattered in flight and released all of its energy in a phenomenal explosion.

After joining up with Korchemny, Chambers claimed he was in the right condition run 9.65 seconds - a time would have shattered the 100m world record.

"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.

Today the illusion of Jay Gatsby would not have shattered like glass against Tom Buchanan's "hard malice": Gatsby's money would have insulated him and guaranteed triumph – an outcome that Fitzgerald would have deplored more than anyone).

On the other hand, if they had, they would probably have shattered a few world records.

Consider, for example, the counterfactual "If Suzy's rock had not hit the bottle, it would still have shattered".

Certainly, this event depends on Suzy's initial throw, but the problem is that the shattering of the bottle does not depend on it, because even without it the bottle would still have shattered because of Billy's throw.