1.   When she failed her degree, it shattered her confidence.

2.   Something like that really shatters your confidence.

3.   The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years.

4.   At a seminar at the Brookings Institution last April, for example, Calvo argued that a devaluation would shatter confidence.

5.   But the credibility of the Finance Ministry has been under attack recently since the financial system suffered a string of institutional collapses that shattered investor confidence.

6.   Centers said being released by the Cardinals has not shattered his confidence.

7.   Granted, Mirer had his confidence shattered early last season when coach Dennis Erickson pulled him at the half from a game the Seahawks trailed by a touchdown.

8.   Her friends had shattered her confidence in received truths by telling her that there was no Santa Claus.

9.   It was a devastating accident that shattered the confidence of the Western world.