Sentence examples for suffered destruction from inspiring English sources

Many of the predecessor lines played a strategic role in the American Civil War, although a number of them suffered destruction by Northern troops.

The Amphitheatre suffered destruction by fire several times, and eventually it became the Royal Amphitheatre of Arts under the patronage of the prince of Wales and the duke of York in 1794.

THE HISTORY Turtle Bay has suffered destruction before: in July 1863, during the Civil War, a mob torched a full block, beginning at the site of a military enlistment office at Third Avenue and 45th Street.

For centuries, the ancient buildings suffered destruction and neglect.

These were especially brutal during the First Crusade, when the Jewish communities in Cologne, Mainz, and Worms were destroyed, and other communities in cities between the rivers Seine and Rhine suffered destruction.

All five right metatarsals are present though they have also suffered destruction of the articular ends.

Another time he attacks the theory of recollection, which he takes to entail the pre-existence of the soul, by flatly denying that knowledge can suffer destruction or, obviously, be revived, and stressing the fact that this follows from Plotinus' (whom he considers to be his main opponent) view that the activities of the soul are immortal.

President Donald Trump cavalierly tossed paper towels to a crowd last October during a visit to Puerto Rico, which had suffered death and destruction from Hurricane Maria.

But we are also sad that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of our Iraqi brethren have also suffered death and destruction as a result of the Persian Gulf War.

It has since suffered untold destruction.

It suffered widespread destruction in World War II but has been largely restored.