COMPACT in design, efficient in operation and capable of inflicting immense destruction over long distances.
The tsunami and its aftermath were responsible for immense destruction and loss on the rim of the Indian Ocean.
A modicum of money and education can now provide anyone with the means of rapid movement, organisation and proselytising, as well as the capacity to cause immense destruction.
It may have taken a half-century of immense destruction at the hands of Europeans to transform the above into axioms that few challenge today.
ICRC in English (@icrc_english) Maurer: "I was shocked by the immense destruction of infrastructure and homes in several areas I visited".
In the case of the Cretaceous extinction, the finger has been pointed at a heavenly body, either an asteroid or a comet, which hit the earth in what is now southern Mexico, and whose arrival must have caused immense destruction.
December 10 2014 Leon Botstein and his orchestra present one of the season's essential programs, an evening that reflects on the immense destruction that marked the first half of the last century.
"Mining operations often cause immense destruction when government doesn't exercise proper oversight," Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said.
That shift was quickened by a new crisis, when, on 28 January 1932, the Japanese also bombarded Shanghai, which brought immense destruction to the film industry.
The events of September 11 resulted not only in immense destruction and loss of life, but in an assault on the American cultural sense of self and of group boundaries.
The war lasted ten years and caused immense destruction and countless deaths.
