The attacks have shattered a period of calm that began nearly a month ago when Israeli troops took over the West Bank.

Pity would have gone to Ivan's aid then, but that's when the tertiary attack shattered the rear window.

But the attack irrevocably shattered his aspirations.

The terrorist attacks, for all their horror, shattered the taboo on government spending.

The car-bomb attack against the palace late Monday shattered windows in the residential section of the building.

The attack, in the port city of Trincomalee, wounded 56 people and shattered the start of a two-day national holiday.

The attacks shattered a calm that had followed an Israeli Army move in the West Bank.

The latest attack shattered any lingering notion among residents that the neighborhood was a bastion of calm.

Hitler thought this unexpected attack would shatter Allied cohesion, and in the confusion he could find a way to end the war victoriously.

But the attacks shattered an already fragile world economy, and oil prices, which once contributed to the slowdown, have now fallen victim to the recession.