1.   A failure would shatter the hopes of many people.

2.   But the ideal of an EU foreign policy has been shattered by failures in Bosnia that led the United States to seize the peace initiative from the EU.

3.   LTCB is so big that its failure could shatter the already fragile faith Japanese depositors have in their banks.

4.   The ideal of an EU foreign policy has been shattered by failures in Bosnia that led Washington to take the peace initiative from the EU.

5.   The failures shattered a myth that a job with a big company would be secure for a lifetime.