Sentence examples for avoided destruction from inspiring English sources

The church, which sits on a hill overlooking the badly damaged downtown, avoided destruction.

Just blocks away stands one of the arms factories that avoided destruction.

Although the town avoided destruction in the great Tatar invasion of 1238 40, Tatar suzerainty was acknowledged.

In the 19th century it was occupied twice by German troops during the Schleswig Wars but avoided destruction.

Villages, abbeys and convents and several towns, were plundered and burned, by both sides; Linz am Rhein and Ahrweiler avoided destruction by swearing loyalty to Salentin.

Most of Norwich's city walls, and all of the gatehouses, were demolished in the late 18th and 19th century as the city industrialised, but the Cow Tower avoided destruction.

Authorities say we must guard national secrets even more securely to avoid destruction.

The machinery had been removed from a Polaroid factory in Boston to avoid destruction.

In the aftermath of the bomb's release, Tibbets flung the huge B29 into a 155° turn to avoid destruction.

Germany, meanwhile, was seeking the return of artifacts transported to Poland to avoid destruction during the war.

Iraqi losses included some 35 aircraft downed in air-to-air combat, some 100 destroyed on the ground, and 115 flown to Iran to avoid destruction.