It was an age of contradictions and extremes: A wealthy, sophisticated, overly ornate court society coexisted with political chaos and destructive warfare.
In Belgium, whose invasion by Germany lit the touchpaper that plunged Europe into four years of darkness and the most destructive warfare the world has seen, government leaders and royalty gathered in Liege.
Democrats do not engage in this sort of destructive warfare against Republicans.
It was the beginning of the Labour party's destructive internal warfare, in which Benn played a leading part and Sedgemore, now regarded as an iconoclastic leftwinger, was a powerful player in the team.
Khartoum "continues a pattern of sustained, intense and destructive economic warfare against the south … The purpose is not only to destabilise the south but to provoke actual military confrontation and create a casus belli for a new war," he said.
Amid the fallout from the gripping but mutually destructive open warfare of the past few days, it may have escaped the attention of most of the cricket-loving public that the England and Wales Cricket Board has a new chief executive.
His presence, he believed, would stop the PP engaging in self-destructive internal warfare.
In that show, it was revealed that space bugs — gross little insects hatched from an asteroid — have been crawling into our ears, eating our brains, and turning us into hyper-partisan zombies bent on self-destructive political warfare.
In an effort to make sense of what animates the "world's only military superpower" today, Witt looks backward: "From the Revolution forward, the United States' long history of leadership in creating the laws of war stands cheek by jowl with a destructive style of warfare".
In the story of Giovanni Medici, head of the papal army, who died in 1526 of cannon wounds on the banks of the Po, Mr Olmi finds a portent for the destructive power of warfare today.
One of the most notable fields is their utilization for multiple defense applications, such as nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) warfare, destructive adsorption, and decomposition of acid gases and polar organics, including CWAs and their mimics [11, 12, 13].
