Sentence examples for when it was destroyed from inspiring English sources

For the Nazis, the house became an important showcase of German cultural might; when it was destroyed by Allied bombers, its rebuilding became a matter of political urgency.

Strategically, Ashur was smaller and less well-situated than Nimrūd (Kalakh) or Nineveh, the other principal cities of Assyria; but the religious sanctity of Ashur ensured its continuous upkeep until 614 bce, when it was destroyed by the Babylonians.

The hotel's appeal and size grew through 1878, when it was destroyed by fire; it was rebuilt to its present design the next year.

The plane was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was destroyed.

Robert Woo, 39, an architect, was in the trailer when it was destroyed.

Hangzhou continued to be a great cultural centre until 1862, when it was destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion (1850 64).

"If you had told me a few months ago that thousands of people would take to the streets to complain about our political system," said one protester, María Subinas, "I would have found it hard to believe, because it looked like we were an apathetic generation that was incapable of responding to a crisis even when it was destroying our jobs like a tsunami".

Yet when it is destroyed, life itself goes.

You don't see light between bodies in space and the sun, yet we know it's there because it strikes the bodies and produces illumination when it is destroyed.

In the Abhidharmakośa Vasubandu defines conventional truth/reality as follows: "An entity, the cognition of which does not arise when it is destroyed and, mentally divided, is conventionally existent like a pot and water.

A pot and water are designated as conventionally existent therefore conventionally real for the concept "pot" ceases to exist when it is destroyed physically, and the concept "water" no longer arises when we conceptually exclude from it its shape, colour etc.