My ultimate goal as we moved into this process was to maintain precedent and not shatter a very thoughtful process laid out in the Constitution and within Senate rules.
Few, if any, athletic records last more than a decade before better athletes break them, and then in the next decade shatter them as a new breed of competitor emerges.
Last week, the Irish parliament backed a move by the justice minister, Alan Shatter, to impose a November deadline on the completion of its final report.
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Both the Jabra Revo Wireless and Jabra Revo headphones are solidly constructed using an aluminium frame, steel hinges and a shatter-proof headband for extreme flexibility.
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Teams of workers Thursday began taking measurements to layer the inside of the windows with a Mylar shatter-resistant coating similar to that on car windshields.
Many contain undetectable flaws, causing a stone to shatter under the polisher's wheel.
Despite the introduction of improved locks and shatter-proof windows, a car is broken into every 20 seconds in Britain.
But instead of spewing lethal fragments like the grenades and explosive charges that the military uses to breach walls, the water bottles just shatter on impact and release a spray of water.
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Once considered a player who could shatter the career home run record, Rodriguez has transformed from All-Star to annoyance for some in the Yankees organization.
Mr Shatter said the closures are part of a modern, smart policing strategy.
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Others have suggested we use nuclear weapons to "kick" an asteroid from its orbit, or even to shatter it into smaller debris -- a rather dim idea that misleads us into believing a single bullet is worse than the blast from a shotgun.
But an insensitive leader can shatter the decades of tradition that have made a great company what it is.
If one of the discs hits a combatant, he'll shatter into glassy fragments, and Sam, absorbing the physics of the game, must learn to treat his body almost as part of the surrounding architecture.
The debris could shatter into more pieces or change orbit and be on a collision course with something else.
"We have requested a meeting with the justice minister, Alan Shatter, and will be seeking from him assurances that resources to complete the tribunal's work are in place, " Ms McBride said.
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The Bethany Survivors Group are reasonably pleased with those comments and have been given to understand by another government minister that Mr Shatter will make his decision known on their case in a matter of weeks.
Melis Birder, a Turkish film-maker who is co-producing a documentary on the team, believes its success can shatter prejudices against Kurds.
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With 12, 000 points of power and the ability to shatter three shields on contact, stopping Kurragar is going to be a difficult task.
And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.
Success with shale gas will reduce dependence on imports and increase tax revenues, they say, but there is a downside: if it takes off, shale gas will shatter the UK's statutory climate change targets unless the government moves much faster with carbon capture and storage technology.
His still delicate heart came to a stop, as if suddenly cast in stone, only to shatter into pieces when it came charging back.
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Hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" is a process of forcing water mixed with chemicals through deep wells to shatter and crack hard shale rocks to release the gas inside.
Either would be enough to give me a real start in the real world and would be certainly enough to shatter an otherwise peaceful night's sleep.
Yet, the hand wringing, bumbling generals led by a madman and backed by a German public with little appetite for war unleashed the blitzkrieg that would shatter the French and British forces in less than 7 weeks.
Duarte also points to the physical prowess of Zagallo's 11, who helped shatter traditional preconceptions regarding the strength and fitness of South American players -- culminating in a thumping 4-1 win over Italy in the 1970 final.
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Putting a face to the service of gay and lesbian service members has the ability to shatter the negative stereotypes that the general public may have about their service.
The condition for being part of such a successful act is that the girls must not date boys, so as not to shatter their fans' illusions.
Shatter cones are surface features with distinctive wavy patterns that are known to be created only by the tremendous force of a meteorite impact or an underground nuclear explosion.
If you think of your career as a juggling act of various balls, ask yourself which of those balls are made of glass and would shatter if dropped, and which are made of rubber and would bounce back.
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