Sentence examples for serious destruction from inspiring English sources

It caused serious destruction, reaching levels of utter devastation.

Natural hazards are events with a potential to cause harm to human interests, while disasters indicate that human interests were in harm's way and suffered serious destruction.

Earthquakes and subsidence are common occurrences in the Helike Delta and caused serious destruction in the ancient city of Helike in 373 BCE.

And though the war has caused serious destruction, leveling buildings and certain neighborhoods along the border, there are surprising pockets of normality.

Raccoons, the most adaptable of urban wildlife, rummage through trash cans, snack on pet foods left outside and occasionally break into homes, where they can cause serious destruction in search of food.

Almost 72 hours have passed since millions of people on the east coast took shelter in their homes and braced for a historic storm that would eventually cause serious destruction in many states.

Rarely does a human fever exceed 106 degrees, a level beyond which serious tissue destruction can occur.

These incidents are a vital factor in water contamination, thus leading to serious environmental destruction.

The Guizhou Province is characterized by an extremely fragile environment resulting from serious ecosystem destruction, termed "karst rocky desertification" (Song et al., 1983; Yang, 1988; Wang et al., 2004a, b; Yang et al., 2009).

Ashcroft essentially repeated the same refrain in dozens of different ways: "The ability to effectively deal with the high volume of information out there, by providing access and drawing conclusions with link analysis, is necessary to help us prevent serious mass destruction of the rights of the American people".

The Raqqa campaign has "resulted in massive civilian casualties, displacement and serious infrastructure destruction" so far, it said in a May report.