Sentence examples for mortally damaged from inspiring English sources

The Earth had already tilted towards chaos, long before it sank deep into a swampy labyrinth in Flanders.Other things lasted, when the Great War was supposed to have mortally damaged them.

She shelled Fort 9 until she ceased fire at 18 35; the fort meanwhile fired on the mortally damaged battleship HMS Ocean.

But he added that despite the Tories' desire to see the scope of the BBC reduced there was no appetite to mortally damage the corporation.

Neither side was able to mortally damage any ships while the Russians were still in the lead with about a half-hour of daylight left when two 12-inch shells fired by Asahi struck near Tsesarevichs conning tower at 18 40.

The president will benefit from a long, drawn-out Republican primary election battle which could last months (i.e., forcing the remaining candidates to take extreme positions to carve out support, with those positions mortally damaging the eventual nominee in the General Election).

Were he to call a referendum, campaign for a "yes" vote and lose, his premiership would be damaged, perhaps mortally.

With his ship immobile and badly damaged, the mortally wounded Captain Etienne Dalbarade struck his colours and a boarding party seized control.

Opening fire, Scott's warships sank one of Gotō's cruisers and one of his destroyers, heavily damaged another cruiser, mortally wounded Gotō, and forced the rest of Gotō's warships to abandon the bombardment mission and retreat.

Taking the Japanese by surprise, Scott's warships sank one of Gotō's cruisers and one of his destroyers, heavily damaged another cruiser, mortally wounded Gotō, and forced the rest of Gotō's warships to abandon the bombardment mission and retreat.

In the opening exchange of fire, Success was badly damaged but Perrée was mortally wounded.

HMS Orion under John Thomas Duckworth and HMS Queen under Admiral Alan Gardner both attacked the same ship, Queen suffering severely from the earlier actions in which her masts were badly damaged and her captain John Hutt mortally wounded.