Sentence examples for modern destruction from inspiring English sources

But the modern destruction of Rustavi occurred when the Soviet Union collapsed.

The four years' bloodletting that followed became, as Austrian satirist Karl Kraus apprehended almost immediately, a laboratory for modern destruction.

Indians used fire to a large degree in managing their lands; the suppression of fires in Yosemite Valley has led to the decreasing size of "artificial" meadows initially thought to be "natural". I do not mean to imply that the modern destruction of the biosphere is comparable, but it is important to know that man has always affected his environment on this continent.

Try to imagine, now, how the current government could have swung its agenda – the radical, hyper-modern destruction of state support structures – without the fictional stoic Britishness embodied in this meme.

He wrote in "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" that the visionary behind the highway, Robert Moses, represented the tension in modern life: destruction goes hand in hand with perceived progress.

For Antoine, Les Halles was not just the belly of Paris but its heart, and for him the replacement of Les Halles by Rungis is the primordial sin of modern France the destruction of Penn Station, Ebbets Field, and B. Altman's combined.

The first modern fly-destruction device was invented in 1900 by Robert R. Montgomery, an entrepreneur based in Decatur, Ill.

For Antoine, Les Halles was not just the belly of Paris but its heart, and for him the replacement of Les Halles by Rungis is the primordial sin of modern France — the destruction of Penn Station, Ebbets Field, and B. Altman's combined.

But those efforts will be hollow if we forget how antiquities have remained present in the lives of Iraqis and Syrians right up to this grim modern era of destruction.

Organized around a ramshackle wooden racetrack built by Andreas Schlaegel, Phillip Zaiser and Thomas Zipp, this sophomoric mess of a 30-artist exhibition means to satirize violent, addictive and otherwise excessive behaviors supposedly driving modern society to destruction.

Along the same lines, Krier was influential in both the United States and Britain for his iconlike drawings of city planning schemes in a ruthlessly simple Classical style and for his polemical attacks on what he saw as modern technology's destruction of civic order and human dignity.