The flood ruined the crops.

Has violence destroyed my future?

The 7.5 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami and has destroyed thousands of homes.

In 2009 alone, the government eradicated more than 165,000 hectares of coca.

In 2009 alone, the government eradicated more than 165,000 hectares of coca.

The debt burden destroyed consumer confidence and undermined the banking system, crippling the economy.

Worse still, the time wasted on political grandstanding destroyed the primary budget surplus, which was Tsipras s trump card in the early negotiations.

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The decade long economic slowdown of the 1990 s tarnished Japan s reputation, but it did not erase Japan s soft power resources.

One interviewee said he had gone to Tokyo after the 2011 tsunami that had destroyed his hometown in Iwate Prefecture.

Catania has a history with earthquakes too an especially violent one destroyed the city in 1693, and the it had to be completely rebuilt.

Floodwater has affected 21 localities so far and has destroyed hundreds of hectares of crops, also washing away a lengthy portion of railway tracks and causing the derailment of several empty passenger coaches.

Indeed, nor would such an offensive have eradicated Hezbollah, because it is a political movement in arms, and not just an army or a band of gunmen.

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In one 24 hour period, the most rain in Chennai s recorded history fell, washing away airplanes at the airport, destroying homes and leaving much of the city without power.

The UN and NATO are widely perceived as damaged, if not broken, by their failure to agree on what to do about Iraq.

Desperate for any assistance at all, Bolivia's governments ultimately uprooted thousands of hectares of peasant crops and got almost nothing in return but a lot of phony slogans about alternative development.

Look at America in 1787 creation of the federal government swept away the balkanized system of pre revolutionary colonies, ushering in an era of entrepreneurial expansion across the entire American Continent.

In the case of Krakatoa, the island reached its climax community, with eight hundred different recorded species, in 1983, one hundred years after the eruption that cleared all life off the island.

Even though the Colombian government chemically eradicated 523,000 hectares of coca between 2000 and 2004, 114,000 hectares of coca remained under cultivation last year.

Similarly, a clear division between a refugee friendly west and a closed east would effectively end the Schengen Agreement, because the political disagreement would harden into a physical barrier blocking the free movement of people within the EU.

When Israel launched a lengthy bombing campaign in Lebanon last month, it created so many civilian casualties that the early criticisms of Hezbollah by Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia became untenable in Arab politics. When terrorist excesses killed innocent Muslim civilians such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad did in 1993 or Abu Musab al Zarqawi did in Amman in 2005, they undercut their own soft power and lost support.

When terrorist excesses killed innocent Muslim civilians such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad did in 1993 or Abu Musab al Zarqawi did in Amman in 2005, they undercut their own soft power and lost support.

When she saw his quiet gestures, heard his shrill, childish, and sarcastic voice, her repulsion toward him destroyed the pity she had felt for him, and she now experienced nothing but fear and anxiety to clear up the situation at any cost.