11.   Real cover-ups in Vietnam, Watergate and Iran-Contra did much to shatter public confidence.

12.   Robinson is leery of pushing young players too hard for fear of permanently shattering their confidence.

13.   Should he start Irbe again, an early or weak goal against Carolina could shatter the confidence of his team and discourage the local fans.

14.   Some software companies have rejected the idea because they fear it will shatter customer confidence in privacy.

15.   That confidence had been shattered early this year when Osuna came out of spring training with a new three-year contract but without control.

16.   That is the risk of a chain reaction, a global market meltdown that could shatter confidence and plunge the world into recession or worse.

17.   The corruption investigation continues, with each new revelation shattering fan confidence further.

18.   They have to prevent the kind of humiliating defeat that would shatter their confidence for the rest of the year.

19.   They dreamed of making a killing, but in the last month, the empty drilling samples taken by a prospective American partner shattered confidence in Bre-X.

20.   Trinidad hurt Reid with a perfect left hook that knocked him to the canvas and seemed to shatter his confidence in the seventh round.