Sentence examples for fear of destruction from inspiring English sources

Anderson asked herself where she had seen that anxious upward glance before, and recalled the faces of her neighbors in the weeks after September 11th — the fresh fear of destruction from above.

The view from atop the largest structures, where spiders spin webs across doorways without fear of destruction, is stunning; the endless surrounding jungle is unspoiled by the panorama of radio towers you see from the Kukulcan pyramid in Chichén Itzá.

Some argue that the fear of destruction has been a powerful motivator for peace, but this is hardly a stable solution as can be seen with today's situation with North Korea.

As his state faces the worst drought in its history, with mandatory water rationing for residents and fears of destruction to the agricultural sector, California governor Jerry Brown had a message Sunday for climate change deniers: wake up.

For those born as the cold war came to an end, the fear of global destruction will be a new and life-changing experience.

The fear of mutual destruction in a global nuclear holocaust injected into the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union a marked element of restraint.

Today we mostly rely on the fear of mutual destruction and voluntary commitments by countries such as China and India on a "no-first-use" policy that only permit the firing of nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack.

Both sides say they do not want war, and the fear of extensive destruction and civilian deaths has deterred new hostilities since the last war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.

Even the superpowers, whose mutual fear of mass destruction kept them from direct conflict, fought for decades through proxies, with the Russians arming the North Vietnamese in the 1960s and '70s and American arms fueling the Afghan resistance during the 1980s.

He created an environmental ethic that arose from his fear of the destruction of humanity and from the need to create a philosophical basis for humans' responsibility to save themselves and the planet.

A veteran director like Ross McElwee started out making a documentary, Sherman's March, about some larger subject like the effects of General Sherman's devastating march throughout the South during the Civil War and turns it into a modern personal statement about his life, loves and fear of nuclear destruction.