Sentence examples for community were destroyed from inspiring English sources

In 1990 more than 100 homes in the Kalapana community were destroyed by lava flow.

— THE NEW YORK TIMES In Breezy Point, in the Rockaways in Queens, at least 50 tightly packed homes in the beach community were destroyed overnight.

According to the story, the temple and the community were destroyed several times over the centuries by floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters, but the Jewish community retained its customs and beliefs.

"The whole structure of the community is destroyed.

And a community being destroyed by new developments and whose protests are brutally suppressed by the police.

Since Oswiecim's Jewish community was destroyed by the Nazis, the Government gave the synagogue to Jews in nearby Bielsko-Biala.

You can dismiss that as superstition, but the codex was taken from the synagogue in 1947 and the community was destroyed.

The center of the community was destroyed, though a few grateful residents walked away with only slight damage, like broken windows.

It is heartbreaking for someone like me who has lived and worked in the area for more than 40 years to see this once vibrant community being destroyed.

Although the media are doing their best to keep the public informed of what is happening in their area, your perception of events is vastly different when witnessing firsthand your local community being destroyed.

A little less than a year ago, the photographer Hiroko Masuike was living with a group of Japanese tsunami and earthquake survivors who had found shelter inside an ancient Buddhist temple after their community was destroyed.