21.   An analyst said investor confidence was shattered by the UEM and Renong deal.

22.   By attacking two great economic symbols, the terrorists tried to shatter confidence in the world economic system.

23.   Hong Kong is abuzz with talk about corporate layoffs and shattered confidence in the economy.

24.   Hong Kong adopted the Bill of Rights two years after the Chinese military quelled student-led demonstrations in Beijing and shattered confidence in the colony.

25.   Israel recoups, aided by massive U.S. arms airlift, but inconclusive war shatters its confidence.

26.   Lakhani and several other economists also said that investor confidence has been shattered by the rapidly changing policies being spelled out almost daily by the State Bank of Pakistan.

27.   Leonardo said that if the video tape alibi is rejected, it will shatter the confidence of the rest of the defendants.

28.   That confidence was shattered on Monday, when the government set in motion a sharp devaluation of the ruble.

29.   The attack killed hundreds, possibly thousands, of people and shattered the confidence of many in Hong Kong about their future under China.

30.   The attacks shattered public confidence in the peace process and are seen as a main factor in the narrow electoral defeat of former premier Shimon Peres in May.