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The act of destroying.

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The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.

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The results of a destructive event.

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Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.

The destruction continued for miles without end, as far as she could see.

Certain destruction lay behind the French but in front there was hope.

He squatted beside her, unaffected by the destruction around him.

The cause of the destruction of the French army in 1812 is clear to us now.

His whole life on the brink of destruction if it were recognized what he was doing.

Charles hurried back from Naples, and narrowly escaped destruction at Fornovo in the passes of the Apennines.

Destruction is one of its chief ends.

Before they could get out of sight, Joseph Dawkins' rental Jeep pulled up below them, cutting new destruction through the flowers.

A war which became general, as any limited action might, would only result in the virtual destruction of mankind.

This, then, was Ezekiel's political creed - destruction of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, restoration of the exiles, and meantime submission to Babylon.

He looked out over the forests to the north, the destruction of the south, and the meadow to the east.

During the war in Italy he is several times on the verge of destruction and each time is saved in an unexpected manner.

The destruction was visible long before they reached the low adobe structure hidden between the foothills of the Tucson Mountains.

The other, from the countess, described their last days in Moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property.

The result of a deity breaking one of the three is basically the destruction of the world.

But the destruction of the French, which he alone foresaw, was his heart's one desire.

Nothing will stand between Xander and turning the worlds into this level of destruction.

Even the war which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D.

It ends with the destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of the Roman Empire, which was, like Alexander, at once the masterful pupil and the docile patron of Hellenism.

The most destructive locust is the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), which causes wholesale destruction in the East.

The population of Pompeii at the time of its destruction cannot be fixed with certainty, but it may very likely have exceeded 20,000.

Finally Harun resolved on their destruction, and Ja`far b.

The vessel had done much damage to the Federal naval forces, and her destruction was greatly desired.

But the destruction of Jerusalem is not quite unique, and somewhat later we meet with indirect evidence for at least one similar disaster upon which the records are silent.

Scarcely 40 years after the destruction of Jerusalem, a new power appeared in the east in the person of Cyrus the Great.

The canonical history has allowed only one great destruction of Jerusalem, and the disaster of 586 B.C. became the type for similar disasters, but how many there were criticism can scarcely decide.'

The result of this alliance between a revolutionary and a Pharisee was the formation of the party of Zealots, whose influence - according to Josephus - brought about the great revolt and so led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70.

But everything pointed to the destruction of the city, which one Jesus had prophesied at the feast of tabernacles in 62.

The principal wealth of the island is derived from its olive groves; notwithstanding the destruction of many thousands of trees during each successive insurrection, the production is apparently undiminished, and will probably increase very considerably owing to the planting of young trees and the improved methods of cultivation which the Government is endeavouring to promote.

The later phase, which follows on the destruction of the Cnossian palace, and corresponds with the diffused Mycenaean style of mainland Greece and elsewhere, is already partly decadent.

Shortly before this date the palaces both of Cnossus and Phaestus had undergone a great destruction, and though during the ensuing period both these royal residences were partially reoccupied it was for the most part at any rate by poorer denizens, and their great days as palaces were over for ever.

In 1865 President Johnson appointed as provisional governor William Lewis Sharkey (1797-1873), who had been chief justice of the state in 1832-1850, and a convention which assembled on the 14th of August recognized the "destruction" of slavery and declared the ordinance of secession null and void.

The destruction of pine forests to meet the demands for naval stores, and the introduction and increased use of the refrigerator car, resulted in much attention to the growth of garden produce for Northern markets.

The town of Tetschen originally lay on the south side of the castle rock, but after its destruction by a flood, it was moved in 10J9 to its present site.

Its contents relate to the destruction of the world through war and natural catastrophes - for the heathen a source of menace and fear, but for the persecuted people of God one of admonition and comfort.

His last political achievement was in July 1795, when he was present with Hoche at the destruction of the army of the emigres at Quiberon, and ordered the executions which followed.

In 1669-70 Aurangzeb visited the city and continued the work of destruction.

But the destruction of the viceroy's power was essential to their continued independent existence.

Aided by the signory, which was playing into the hands of Rome, the Arrabbiati and Compagnacci pressed the matter on, and the way was now clear for Savonarola's destruction.

This expedition was called the war of the "Epigoni" or descendants, and ended in the taking and destruction of Thebes.

Though the inhabitants bad been arned by the earlier convulsions of the mountain, so swiftly d destruction come upon them that 18,ooo are said to have St their lives.

In this way In Memoriam was dragged back from the very verge of destruction, and could be published, in its original anonymous form, in May 1850.

The latest reference to the city of Sardis relates its capture (and probable destruction) by Timur in 1402.

With the destruction of this kingdom by Pompey in 64 B.C., the meaning of the name Pontus underwent a change.

King Stephen silenced Vacarius, and ordered the destruction of the books of civil and canon law which had been imported by Theobald.

They invaded Europe about 1237 under the leadership of Bail Khan, a younger son of Juji, eldest son of Jenghiz Khan, passed over Russia with slaughter and destruction, and penetrated into Silesia, Poland and Hungary, finally defeating Henry II., duke of Silesia, at Liegnitz in the battle known as the Wahlstatt on the 9th of April 1241.

In spite of his partial failures, Heraclius must be regarded as one of the greatest of Byzantine emperors, and his early campaigns were the means of saving the realm from almost certain destruction.

In 1772 appeared a tract on The Principles of Bridges, suggested by the destruction of Newcastle bridge by a high flood on the 17th of November 1771.

A strange episode in the legend of the destruction of man by the gods tells how Ra (or Re), the first king of the world, finding in his old age that mankind ceased to respect him, first tried the remedy of massacre, and then ascended the heavenly cow, and organized a new world - that of heaven.9 8.

In the south and east the destruction was arrested by the high sandy shores of Gooi, Veluwe, Voorst, and Gasterland in the provinces of Utrecht, Gelderland, Overysel, and Friesland respectively.