And also, shattering the glass ceiling is a terrible phrase.

Okay, so how exactly do we create this world shattering, if you will, innovation?

... hit here pulling trees from the ground, shattering windows, taking the roofs off of homes.

But what happened for me is that that shattering actually emboldened me in a way I have never been emboldened.

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots as I also have received of my Father

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots as I also have received of my Father

One of the shattering events in the history of mathematics, which is not appreciated by many people, occurred about 130 years ago, 145 years ago.

It is a tectonic shift to the East with shattering implications, says Calestous Juma, a Kenyan professor at Harvard University who advises the African Union on technology policy.

None of this is especially earth shattering or original, except insofar as it seems to suggest the persistence of a Cold War mentality in US foreign policy thinking about Latin America.

We're now so used to the idea that the Earth spins rather than the Sun moves across the sky it's hard for us to realize what a shattering mental revolution that must have been.

This was no earth shattering event, but financial markets responded as if a meteorite had struck them. The negative reaction is no mystery China s devaluation was a textbook example of how not to conduct exchange rate policy.

That shattering, that opening of my girl cell, that kind of massive breakthrough of my heart allowed me to become more courageous, and braver, and actually more clever than I had been in the past in my life.

In 1998, Larson and Witham polled the cream of American scientists, those who'd been honored by election to the National Academy of Sciences, and among this select group, belief in a personal God dropped to a shattering seven percent.

Do you feel secure that He will not send you back into it another time and unleash against you a shattering gale and drown you because of your unfaith? Then you will not find for yourselves any redresser against Us.

Do you feel secure that He will not send you back into it another time and unleash against you a shattering gale and drown you because of your unfaith? Then you will not find for yourselves any redresser against Us.

Twenty years of the most advanced thinking for mathematical algorithms came from a Soviet empire starved of computing power. The cleverest, most literally earth shattering notions of physics for two generations came not from the expected powerhouses of the day, but from Budapest.

In the US, the skew has been so negative only three other times since 1960 at the time of the 6.7 drop on May 28, 1962, the record shattering 20.5 plummet on October 19, 1987, and the 6.1 decline on October 13, 1989.

Not only are migrant flows into Europe shattering records from one month to the next migrants primary entry points are changing as well. Meanwhile, the already hazy lines between asylum seekers, refugees, displaced persons, and purely economic migrants are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish at all.

And I will tell you that what happened is through that shattering, listening to the stories of eight year old girls who had their insides eviscerated, who had guns and bayonets and things shoved inside them so they had holes, literally, inside them where their pee and poop came out of them.

Rising tension on the Korean Peninsula is shattering fast the glimmers of hope for re unity that followed ten years of progress under the Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo hyun governments. South Korean President Lee Myung bak, through his flip flops, and Kim Jong Il, with his renewed nuclear blackmail, both seem determined to see relations deteriorate.

These unfortunate and ultimately disastrous events established an unstable foundation in a strategic country at the core of a highly troubled yet vital region of the world. As Iraq moved through progressive phases of mismanagement over the subsequent ten agonizing years, the country fractured, shattering the dreams of Iraqis who saw their beloved homeland once again sliding toward authoritarianism, with almost daily violations of the constitution.

Yet, given the war in the eastern Donbas region, the shattering of so much of our economy, and the precarious nature of our government s finances, the International Monetary Fund and others are clearly asking too much of Ukrainians. The idea that Ukraine can embrace the economic shock therapy that Poland pursued a quarter century ago is the type of cookie cutter policymaking that resulted in the 2008 global financial crisis.

Having taken a quarter century to compile, the project relied on some 40 new sources, most notably the diary and notes of Saburo Hyakutake, an admiral who served as Court Chamberlain from 1936 to 1944. But, while acknowledging the enormous scale of the undertaking, specialists seem to agree that the new account offers no earth shattering findings or innovative interpretations concerning Hirohito s many and changing roles in the most tumultuous period of Japan s modern history.

A younger Al Qaeda ideologue is more convincing, however. In a message dated February 16, 2011, entitled The People s Revolution and the Fall of the Corrupt Arab System A New Beginning and the Shattering of the Idol of Stability, a Libyan who goes by the name Atiyat Allah writes, It is true that this revolution is not the ideal that we had desired . W e hope that this is the first step to better times yet.

If only a Koran whereby the mountains were set in motion, or the earth were cleft, or the dead were spoken to nay, but God's is the affair altogether. Did not the believers know that, if God had willed, He would have guided men all together? And still the unbelievers are smitten by a shattering for what they wrought, or it alights nigh their habitation, until God's promise comes and God will not fail the tryst.

If only a Koran whereby the mountains were set in motion, or the earth were cleft, or the dead were spoken to nay, but God's is the affair altogether. Did not the believers know that, if God had willed, He would have guided men all together? And still the unbelievers are smitten by a shattering for what they wrought, or it alights nigh their habitation, until God's promise comes and God will not fail the tryst.