Sentence examples for devoid of fighting from inspiring English sources

A 64-year-old merchant said the trip to the airport, usually 20 minutes on a highway, took 45 minutes as he detoured through back streets in neighborhoods devoid of fighting and chaos.

There's nothing like feeling the electricity and excitement first hand, devoid of interruptions, cooped up amongst a congregation of fighting game fanatics, roaring, cheering, reacting, applauding.

A lot of fighting.

"Recurrent waves of fighting".

What kind of fighting?

Many of the trips have been to the highlands in southern Chechnya, where the fighting is often intense but devoid of the grim scenes of destroyed apartment houses and terrified civilians that typify Grozny.

Because of the fighting.

With the Georgian military consumed last week by fighting about 120 miles away in South Ossetia, leaving Georgia's west largely devoid of its presence, Abkhaz troops seized the Kodori Gorge almost without a fight.

Previous fighting since 1914 had already turned the area into a barren plain, devoid of trees or vegetation, pockmarked by shell craters.

Colonel Qaddafi's systematic neglect of the army left a military devoid of qualified and trained lieutenants and captains, who form the backbone of any fighting force.

The fighting raged on for two weeks, until the entire area was devoid of people and the streets were littered with rotting corpses.