It shattered the window and blew her out of a room and into a hallway.
What leaps to the eye most impressively is our planet in ruins decades after an alien invasion so destructive that it shattered the moon.
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Hodge's cup of tea had brought down more than the corner of one tower - it shattered the public's confidence in all high-rise dreaming.
When Apple launched the iPhone 4S in the fall of 2011, it shattered sales records, selling over 4 million units in the first three days.
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It shattered GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) by shooting up gas prices, which cratered sales of their high-margin SUVs.
"It shattered when it hit the pavement, " Mr Hall said.
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Quite possibly it has shattered prospects for a negotiated settlement to Afghanistan's long-running internal conflict.
It was shattered in August 2007 with the breakdown of the securitization process.
President Barack Obama's formal declaration of his re-election bid Monday actually serves as a reminder that the 2012 campaign is off to such a slow start that it has shattered one piece of conventional wisdom: the notion that each presidential sweepstakes starts earlier than the last one.
Tectonic shifts shattered it into the continents we know today.
The integral relationship between the body and the human self it housed was as shattered as the wounded men.
The sarcophagus was found so splintered that it must have been deliberately shattered, co-curator David Mevorah said.
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It rang out across the shattered wasteland of No Man's Land as tens of thousands walked to their deaths.
In cases like the Nelson case, it rips up an already shattered family.
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"It's my second serious injury (he shattered a cheekbone and an eye socket while playing for Brentford in 2009) and it did worry me, " he said.
As the ball wandered into foul territory and Piazza began a perfunctory gait toward first base, Clemens picked up the barrel of Piazza's shattered bat and threw it at him.
They looked so dense it seemed a miracle we were not already shattered against their bulk.
While hardly overtly demonstrative, the unexpected shift from pervasively iridescent and decorative presentation to hand-to-hand interchange summarily shattered the fluidly built scene as it described the nymph's spontaneous reactions to her swain's amorous advances.
After discussion with local leaders and much research into the current state of the shattered sculptures, the working party says it now has a good idea of what can practically be done to preserve the remains.
For Turkey, not only has the zero problem with neighbors policy been shattered, but the Arab world opening it had carefully nurtured will be negatively affected if transport trucks must now take a long diversion through Iraq.
And any and all of those detectives who saw Grace Flint's shattered face, or heard descriptions of it, wanted to get their hands on Clayton Buller and, having been denied that gratification by his death, they transferred their anger to Frank Harling.
The Russian assault has left the city a wasteland of shattered buildings and some officials had proposed abandoning it altogether.
Is it possible that Katrina roared out of the Gulf and shattered New Orleans and the surrounding region almost a year ago?
It all began with a gust powerful enough to blow a large slat of wood loose from a construction site and send it hurling into a storefront with a slam, spraying shattered glass everywhere.
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