Sentence examples for immense destruction from inspiring English sources

COMPACT in design, efficient in operation and capable of inflicting immense destruction over long distances.

The tsunami and its aftermath were responsible for immense destruction and loss on the rim of the Indian Ocean.

A modicum of money and education can now provide anyone with the means of rapid movement, organisation and proselytising, as well as the capacity to cause immense destruction.

It may have taken a half-century of immense destruction at the hands of Europeans to transform the above into axioms that few challenge today.

ICRC in English (@icrc_english) Maurer: "I was shocked by the immense destruction of infrastructure and homes in several areas I visited".

In the case of the Cretaceous extinction, the finger has been pointed at a heavenly body, either an asteroid or a comet, which hit the earth in what is now southern Mexico, and whose arrival must have caused immense destruction.

Any utopia founded on the basis of a concept – terra nullius – that has wreaked immense historical destruction, is built on rotten foundations.

Though what possible victory there could have been in an outcome which, in addition to hundreds of thousands of dead, wounded and captured, immense physical destruction and economic havoc, left Iraq on a permanent war footing, still seeking to renegotiate the status of the Shatt al-Arab?

It is a play about a ripple effect, how every generation is affected by the one prior; how heartache and pain don't disappear but continue to exist and persist for eternity, and how the world around us never stops spinning even in the wake of such immense human destruction and loss.

Last year, Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, head of Israel's northern command, speaking on possible future conflicts with neighbors, stated, "We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction".

Shocking drone footage emerged on Monday that shows the immense scale of destruction caused by ongoing conflicts in Damascus, Syria.