Sentence examples for severe bombardment from inspiring English sources

During the afternoon of 21 June, the unit's position was subject to a severe bombardment of artillery shelling, resulting in an order for all men to evacuate the gun pits and seek cover.

Aleppo, which has seen fierce fighting between the government forces of President Bashar Assad and rebels and has been under severe bombardment in recent days, was "hell," said Dr. Samer Attar, an orthopedic surgeon from Chicago who recently volunteered to help in the city.

And Hanoi, which had suffered severe aerial bombardment over the many years of the war, looked to me wondrous in its postwar prosperity, with boulevards and villas, ponds and pagodas — as glorious as it had been when it had been the capital of Indochina.

And from there it went downhill; later in the week, Syrian and Russian forces launched a new offensive against the rebels in Aleppo with severe air-bombardments killing scores of civilians in and around Aleppo.

Machar, under intense ground attacks and aerial bombardment, sustained severe injuries and spent forty days in flight through the forests of Congo.

Hundreds were killed in the shelling of the area, a bombardment so severe that few of those targeted have ever returned.

Germany joined forces with Britain and four other countries this week to reject a draft statement by EU foreign ministers that would have called for an "immediate ceasefire" and would have branded Israel's bombardment as "a severe breach of international humanitarian law".

The major effect of the Ar+ ion bombardment was the severe preferential sputtering of the sulphide type S lowering the ratio of sulphide S to Mo-S states from the initial value of 2 down to approx. 1.5 for molibdenite.

For the treatment time of more than 10 min, the prolonged ion bombardment to the substrate creates severe peptide chain scission as well as the breakage of the amino acid groups, and this possibly lowers the carbon content in the fibers through the formation of more volatile products.

Spanish forces began a siege and bombardment of Gibraltar the following month, causing severe damage through intensive cannon fire.

The outgassing can give a severe damage to the vacuum microelectronic device by electrical arcing and ion bombardment onto a cathode or an anode.