Sami's life was in shambles.

The regime s international legitimacy is equally in a shambles.

The state can't fix the shambles because it is broke.

After his divorce with Layla, Sami's whole life was in shambles.

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake

The economy is in shambles, and unable to meet the International Monetary Fund demands for its continued support.

The fiscal compact had been reduced to a shambles even before Germany s parliament, the Bundestag, approved it later that day.

The Russian economy is a shambles, and Russia s mighty military had to exert itself to its fullest to vanquish tiny Georgia in 2008.

A series of crises in the 1990s left much of Bulgaria's industry and agriculture in shambles, although a period of relative stabilization began with the election of Simeon Saxe Coburg Gotha as prime minister in 2001.

Many Muslims acquiesced in this deviation, viewing the invasion of Iraq as part of the passing of dictatorship and the coming of democracy. But the bloodstained shambles of the US occupation led America to abandon the quest for democracy.

This fouling up is a continuous thread running through American military interventions since the Vietnam War. The US deploys overwhelming firepower, either directly or by arming opposition groups, shatters local governmental structures, and then pulls out, leaving the country in shambles.