Sentence examples for appalling destruction from inspiring English sources

A decade later, we pay tribute to the resilience of ordinary people in the face of appalling destruction.

The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa), which caused appalling destruction a century ago, was a native insect of semidesert country.

In addition, the articles about the British government's intrusions into press freedom — including the appalling destruction of The Guardian's hard drives — were well written by the London bureau chief Steven Erlanger but played on inside pages of the paper.

The arts have always needed patrons, from popes to pharoahs, and the creation of the Arts Council after the appalling destruction of the second world war was an expression of that need, made when the country was in desperate straits.

Around 50 years ago I saw The Sack of Bath, as the title of Adam Fergusson's book described the appalling destruction of much of the beautiful old city, and it's not too lurid to foresee a Second Sack of Bath as all the open land around the city is built over.

Foreign images of the tropics often include verdant rainforests, exotic animals, and unchanging weather, but they may also be of entrenched poverty, unstable governments, and appalling environmental destruction reports Jeremy Hance at Mongabay.

Wherever in the world the sea bed next shakes, however, if we are not to be faced with the same appalling scenes of death and destruction - and there is some evidence that great quakes sometimes occur in pairs just a few decades apart - then there is no better time than the present to ensure that the whistles and bicycles are in sound, working order.

A record 28 tropical storms and hurricanes--including four category-5s--lashed through the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, leaving an appalling toll of death, misery, and destruction in their wakes.

In the weeks and months following, fresh evidence emerged of the extent of destruction and appalling conditions in Falluja, still deserted two months after a major US offensive against the insurgent stronghold.

The escalation of violence engulfing Gaza has led, and is leading, to suffering and destruction on an appalling scale, and is losing Israel friends in the international community day by day.

This awareness and compassion threatens any culture that predicates itself on wanton destruction and an appalling disregard for the suffering of sentient beings".