Sentence examples for destroy fields from inspiring English sources

The combination of steep slopes, high rainfall, and the lack of tree roots to bind the soil can lead to disastrous landslides that destroy fields, homes, and human lives.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite increased efforts to destroy fields of opium poppies and wean Afghan farmers off the country's biggest cash crop, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose in 2011 and spread into areas once declared "poppy free," according to a United Nations survey released Tuesday.

Environmental advocates in Europe have destroyed fields of test plants.

The blast destroyed fields and buildings up to a mile away.

Could he, at age 43, regain the form that had him destroying fields from 1997 to 2008?

He discussed a drought that destroyed fields and crops, and summertime wildfires that charred hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee.

Beginning in July , 1982 the Army descended on the Ixil region, indiscriminately burning houses, murdering men, women, and children, destroying fields, and killing livestock.

And they note that peasant farmers in India have destroyed fields of genetically engineered crops, so it is not only well-fed environmentalists who oppose them.

Good to know — destroying fields of poppies, which yield opium, the raw material for heroin, has been one of the main elements of the American counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan.

The storm made landfall on the commonwealth more than a week ago as a Category 4 hurricane and swept it from end to end, destroying fields of crops and ripping the façades off of apartment buildings.

British forces decisively won the second war (1795 97), which they waged relentlessly, burning towns and destroying field crops in their wake.