In past years, 80 percent or more of the country's native forests were destroyed, predominantly by independent slash-and-burn agriculture.
A police officer in a township about 35 miles from Meiktila said Sunday that 55 houses in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood had been destroyed by fire on Saturday night.
Storming predominantly black neighborhoods, these insurgents destroyed massive amounts of property.
On a Muslim street in the predominantly Christian slum of Kaduna, Christians destroyed all the houses except a few belonging to Yoruba.
Releasing the satellite images, Human Rights Watch said it had identified 633 buildings and 178 houseboats and floating barges which were destroyed in an area occupied predominantly by Rohingya.
This year Isis lost Ramadi, the capital of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province, though much of the city was destroyed in the campaign.
Regardless, Gazan's division was nearly destroyed; the 30 percent losses experienced by the French fell predominantly on his division.
Because, radiation predominantly causes mitotic catastrophe (an event in which a cell is destroyed during mitosis) linked death at moderate doses [ 22], we investigated radiation induced cytogenetic damage, which is involved in mitotic catastrophe.
Santos said 300,000 hectares of rainforest were destroyed each year in Colombia to clear land for coca plant cultivation, predominantly controlled by illegal groups, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as Farc.
Molina and Van Nimwegen consider three possibilities, and to me, the one that horizontal gene transfer predominantly occurs between genomes with similar AT-content (horizontally transferred genes coming from organisms with substantially different AT-content being rapidly destroyed or silenced) is highly attractive considering the strong correlation between AT-content and genome size.
