Sentence examples for destruction suffered from inspiring English sources

At the last minute Colonel Meyer lost the courage of his convictions, and so the town was spared the full measure of destruction suffered by millions of Germans in the terrible twilight of Hitler's Reich.

City Administrator Goeden said the destruction suffered by nearby Whittier during the earthquake further spurred Montebello officials.

General Vien cautioned against moving large military formations down Highway 19; he reminded Thieu of the destruction suffered by the French Mobile Group 100 in the region in 1954.

In the years since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia movement's strongholds have recovered from the widespread destruction they suffered - in large part down to major investment from its closest ally, Iran.

Many of the predecessor lines played a strategic role in the American Civil War, although a number of them suffered destruction by Northern troops.

Federal Hall, where George Washington took his first oath as president, served as a refuge for people fleeing the destruction, despite having suffered damage in the attack.

The Amphitheatre suffered destruction by fire several times, and eventually it became the Royal Amphitheatre of Arts under the patronage of the prince of Wales and the duke of York in 1794.

THE HISTORY Turtle Bay has suffered destruction before: in July 1863, during the Civil War, a mob torched a full block, beginning at the site of a military enlistment office at Third Avenue and 45th Street.

Though it is praised for its beauty and status as the world's largest amber creation, many see the Amber Room as a symbol of both a bygone age and the destruction European art suffered during the war.

A little more than a half-century later, Japan is once again at the center of the world's attention, and, once again, along with the unthinkable destruction it has suffered, it is the perils of nuclear energy that have come to the fore.

For centuries, the ancient buildings suffered destruction and neglect.