The ideals that we grew up with and instilled in our children have been destroyed in four short years.
According to American military estimates, 1,000 of Iraq's 2,500 tanks have been destroyed in two weeks of war.
I feel that everything I have done in the last nine years has been destroyed in one day, but all the inspectors, young archaeologists, and administrators, are calling me from sites and museums all over Egypt to tell me that they will give their life to protect our antiquities.
"The program I spent my career building has been destroyed in one fell swoop," said Jones, in a phone interview after the ax fell.
She talks to a doctor who knows that the house that it took him 30 years to afford can be destroyed in three hours, but who still says: "I trust in my god, so no problem".
Called Robot Wars, these gladiator-style contests celebrated engineering ingenuity and the weird obsessiveness of people willing to spend years and thousands of dollars developing a robot that could be destroyed in three minutes or less.
Near Trepassey, the local breakwater was destroyed in three sections, allowing waves to wash inland.
Four homes were destroyed; in one of them, the whole family was killed, eight people".
Guernica was destroyed in two successive raids, according to Basque sources.
For all their frantic air of timelessness, institutions such as the Qom seminary rise and are destroyed in two generations.
