They have too much sense of honour.' If one is horrified at the material destruction - and much of it is, of course, perfectly stupid, - one should not forget the provocation.
It was a most pitiful sight of human and material destruction".
But victory had come at the cost of enormous human and material destruction.
In order to prevent further civilian casualties and great material destruction, Arab states must now work to bring the fighting in Libya to a close.
Kosovan academics were isolated and suffered from material destruction during the war in the late 1990s.
Typical examples of this kind of material destruction are erosion corrosion damage to pumps, impellers, propellers, valves, heat exchanger tubes, and other fluid handling equipment.
But, as a fire occurred in the Panasonic factory located in Qingdao, material destruction could cost a lot as well.
In such a scenario, human casualties should be avoided, although material destruction is inevitable, on condition that the population closely follows the planned evacuation procedures.
The numerical computations yield stresses far beyond quasi-static strength, but high stresses are maintained only for short periods before material destruction.
The material destruction has been computed at 13,500 houses; 87 parish churches; 44 Company Halls; the Royal Exchange; the Custom House; St. Paul's Cathedral; the Bridewell Palace and other City prisons; the General Letter Office; and the three western city gates, Ludgate, Newgate, and Aldersgate.
