Sentence examples for district was destroyed from inspiring English sources

Some 80% of the capital's business district was destroyed and six rioters died.

Much of the district was destroyed in the urban renewal movement in the mid-20th century that displaced many African-American neighborhoods in Detroit and elsewhere, she said.

The percussionist and songwriter Cyril Neville, whose home in the Gentilly district was destroyed and is still under reconstruction while he lives in Austin, Tex., said: "Don't just come here to see and hear the music and enjoy the festivities, but also realize there's still a lot of misery.

On Wednesday night, the al-Quds Hospital in the rebel-held Sukkari district was destroyed in air strikes that US Secretary of State John Kerry said appeared to have been "deliberate".

As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol, in which a 13th district was destroyed, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by an annual lottery to participate in the Hunger Games, an event in which the participants, the "tributes", must fight to the death in an outdoor arena controlled by the Capitol, until only one individual remains.

History: While the majority of the buildings in the historic Römerburg district were destroyed duing the second world war, many of the blockbusters have been meticulously restored.

Eight people are killed and much of the business district is destroyed.

Chief of the local school authority Kamisy Leonard says that 80 per cent of the classrooms in the district were destroyed.

Between the two lines, more than 100,000 people were killed; more than a million were turned into refugees; and residential districts were destroyed.

7 p.m. [Free] "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here," a poetry reading and discussion about Baghdad's ancient literary district, which was destroyed in 2007, at Poets House, downtown.

Much of the commercial district of Winsted was destroyed by the Mad River, which reached 10 feet deep; the floods destroyed most buildings on the south side of the town's Main Street, and carried away several cars from a car dealership.