Sentence examples for suffering destruction from inspiring English sources

Howard Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a leading supporter of Israel, stated that while he had "no trouble justifying the war that Israel has undertaken," he was "deeply troubled by the suffering, destruction and loss of innocent life that it inevitably entails".

The world may contain much good, but it is also a place of suffering, destruction, and death.

"As a nation we are yet to come to terms with the level of human suffering, destruction and displacement, including that of our children to far-away countries, occasioned by those dark days.

God took on all that it means to be human - its joys along with its suffering, destruction, oppression, and injustice.

The escalation of violence engulfing Gaza has led, and is leading, to suffering and destruction on an appalling scale, and is losing Israel friends in the international community day by day.

Still, the veteran Algerian diplomat believes the "ice has been broken" and that having a stuttering peace process is better than not having one – even as the war, suffering and destruction go on.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who as Allied commander in Europe during World War II experienced the devastating cost, suffering and destruction of war, once observed, "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it".

The high elasticity property of the nanotube prevents the tips from suffering mechanical destruction on contact with the substrate, and any impact on the nanotube will cause buckling which is reversible on detachment of tip from the substrate.

Russian air strikes launched in September against rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad have exacerbated suffering and destruction in Syria, where a five-year-old civil war has killed more than a quarter of a million people.

At the opening of the celebration (an odd term to use given the pain, suffering and destruction), I was blessed to be able to dance with hundreds of local women.

I agree that there can be an expectation for stories about Africa to be about suffering, death and destruction... but for too long we had to listen to other people, non-Africans, as they attempted to tell our stories.' The day after we had spoken, I received an email from Iweala.