Sentence examples for war decimated from inspiring English sources

In the decades before war decimated Afghanistan's infrastructure and its land, the country produced 10 percent of the world's raisins.

"The bank's final conference call with Zions, arguably the most wanton act of self-immolation since the Buddhist monks that protested the Vietnam war, decimated management's credibility and likely scared off most plausible suitors".

The theory when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 was that German industry would return to Berlin, a city it largely abandoned in 1945, and that the bourgeoisie that Hitler's war decimated there would be partially reconstituted.

The Civil War decimated Spanish intellectuals, artists, and writers, and the country's culture went into decline, uninterrupted by a brief spate of triunfalismo ("triumphalism") that lasted through the 1940s, when the victorious Falange, the Spanish fascist party, engaged in propagandistic self-glorification.

The subsequent Indian Wars, notably the Yakima War, decimated the native population and removed much land from native control.

Before the civil war decimated large parts of Aleppo, there was no better place to experience the city's lauded cuisine than the Armenian neighborhood of Jdeideh.

What begins as modest portrait of a happy family gives way to a story in which the encroaching civil war decimates not only the country, but also the soul of a man who believes the pool is his entire life.

World War I decimated Germany and produced the necessary conditions for Hitler to rise to power and foment World War II.

World War I decimated the Blue Rider group.

But the Second World War soon decimated the roster, and the league suspended the team.

There is also a misperception that the Pentagon cannot handle cuts right now because a decade of war supposedly decimated the arsenal.