Sentence examples for was virtually destroyed from inspiring English sources

The original settlement was virtually destroyed during the Turkish occupation.

In 1690 the village was virtually destroyed in the Schenectady Massacre by the French and Indians.

Pisco, some 150km south of the capital, Lima, was virtually destroyed.

But they are starting almost from scratch.Farming was virtually destroyed by Saddam.

Yesterday, smoke puffed through gaping holes in the roof, which was virtually destroyed.

The city itself was virtually destroyed by fire in 1938 39, and it was captured by the Japanese in 1944.

"Today, the company we built up over almost four decades has been virtually destroyed".

Guatemala City was founded in 1776 to replace Antigua Guatemala, which had been virtually destroyed by an earthquake in 1773, as the capital of the captaincy general of Guatemala.

Hastings Pier may have been allowed to fall into disrepair before being virtually destroyed by a devastating fire, but a dedicated group of residents are behind a high profile battle to bring the 142-year-old structure back to life.

The leadership of Lashkar-e-Jangvi has been virtually destroyed in a series of arrests, shootings and an accidental explosion in a bomb-making factory, the Western official said.

"Some towns in the area have been virtually destroyed in their entirety," Gianfranco Fini, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, said in Rome before the chamber observed a moment of silence.