Sentence examples for overwhelming destruction from inspiring English sources

Baghdad never recovered from its sack by the Mongols in 1258, when perhaps 200,000 people were massacred in scenes of overwhelming destruction.

By contrast, imagine what would have happened if we had focused the money and men that we spent and diverted in Iraq on the retaliatory, swift, overwhelming destruction of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen.

As is the case elsewhere in Europe, we're against the destruction of the welfare state and the overwhelming destruction of jobs in public administration, which brings with it the dismantling, degradation and higher cost of public services.

All the dictionary definitions of war involve bloodshed and overwhelming destruction". Another student joined in: "Don't tell us about charters and so-called noble missions, what we see is what we believe". The whole class cheered; I had nothing to say.

Faced with overwhelming destruction, the private sector moved to a whole new order of magnitude of response.

On a few visits last year, where we managed to obtain rare access inside Yarmouk, we found streets of overwhelming destruction and despair.

The result was overwhelming slaughter, destruction, and despair.

President Obama and Gov. Chris Christie toured the destruction caused by superstorm Sandy by helicopter today, taking in the overwhelming devastation on the Jersey shore.

It first lifted the rear of his truck, then the rest of the vehicle before long he was afloat, watching the timber of destroyed homes slip by amid the overwhelming din of destruction and so much still-rising water.

I hope that telling my personal story may remind us that, as with each overwhelming picture of destruction on any of the shores slammed by Sandy, there is a story of their own love for their home, their community and their memories.

He described the impact of the storm, the thousands of bodies lying about, his attempts to somehow help despite the overwhelming magnitude of the destruction and death.