Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

Much of this funding has historically been diverted to general city expenses, under section 3. d of the 1989 agreement.

Much of the city, including railroads and stockyards, survived intact, and from the ruins of the previous wooden structures arose more modern constructions of steel and stone which would set the precedent for worldwide construction.

Much notable Chicago fiction focuses on the city itself, with social criticism keeping exultation in check.

Much of his life and his whole career coincided with the struggle between Athens and Sparta for hegemony in Greece but he didn't live to see the final defeat of his city.

Much of the city has been spared from destructions that occurred in other cities of Afghanistan during the 1978-present wars.

Much of the city still boasted intact buildings and monuments from ancient Roman times, but Boniface razed it anyway, even spreading salt on the site as the Romans did in Carthage 1500 years before.

Much of the North End is made up of the former city of Portland and comprises another former working class area which is slowly undergoing gentrification at the eastern end of Douglas Avenue ; immediately north of Portland and upstream from the Reversing Falls is the former community of Indiantown.

Much of the tourism is based on claims of " southernmost " things, for example both Ushuaia and Puerto Williams claim to be the southernmost city in the world.

* February 3 – Hawke's Bay earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7. 9 on the Richter scale.

* Much to the delight of the citizens of Chang ' an City, the Chinese Tang Dynasty government orders fruit trees to be planted along every main avenue of the city, which enriches not only the diets of the people but also the surroundings.

Much of the architecture of the time belongs to a remarkably strong Modern ( rationalist ) Architecture current, led by Horia Creangă and Marcel Iancu, which managed to literally change the face of the city.

Much of the old city of Trapani dates from the later medieval or early modern periods ; there are no extant remains of the ancient city.

Much of the wealth on which the city of Manchester, and surrounding towns, was built in the late eighteenth century, and for much of the nineteenth century, was based on the processing of slave-picked cotton .. Other British cities also profited from the slave trade. Birmingham, the largest gun producing town in Britain at the time, supplied guns to be traded for slaves.

Much of its historic heritage remains intact, and today there are always renovations going on in the city to preserve the many old buildings, fortifications, churches and statues for later generations.

Much of its economic activity comes from a large number of chemical industries located in the city or in surrounding areas.

Much of the city's tax base dissipated, leading to problems with funding education, sanitation, and traffic control within the city limits.

Much of the city downtown is built in the Russian Revival and Stalin Empire styles.

Much of Mérida's architecture from the colonial period through the 18th century and 19th century is still standing in the centro historico of the city.

Much of the commercial activity was centered on the area called Washington Square, which was once the center of both the commercial and civic life of the colonial city.

Much of the collectivization in Moldova had undergone in Transnistria, in Chişinău, the present-day capital city of Moldova.

Much of the land inside the city limits on the east and northeast sides of Gardendale is rocky and hilly with deep ravines.

Much of the city flooded due to the storm.

Much of Bulgaria ’ s communist-era industry was heavy industry, although biochemicals and computers were significant products beginning in the 1980s.

Much military information is not made publicly available, including budget information, the names of the general officers and the military ’ s size ( which is considered a state secret ).

Much of Kepler ’ s enthusiasm for the Copernican system stemmed from his theological convictions about the connection between the physical and the spiritual ; the universe itself was an image of God, with the Sun corresponding to the Father, the stellar sphere to the Son, and the intervening space between to the Holy Spirit.

Much of our knowledge of medieval mining techniques comes from books such as Biringuccio ’ s De la pirotechnia and probably most importantly from Georg Agricola's De re metallica ( 1556 ).

Much of Sergius ’ pontificate has been maligned throughout history, principally through the reporting of his character and the state of Rome at the time by Liutprand of Cremona.

Much has been written about Gretzky ’ s highly developed hockey instincts, but he once explained that what appeared to be instinct was, in large part, the effect of his relentless study of the game.

Much work on Bloomsbury continues to focus on the group ’ s class origins and alleged elitism, their satire, their atheism, their oppositional politics and liberal economics, their non-abstract art, their modernist fiction, their art and literary criticism, and their non-nuclear family and sexual arrangements.

Much of what Cinna ’ s attention while ruling Rome was focused on was dealing with Sulla.

Much of the negative impact of estrogen that they found was related to the fact that most of the women in the Women ’ s Health Initiative study were far past the menopause and up to 79 years old .” Dr. Rubinow continues by explaining that “ there are now a large number of studies that demonstrate what has been called the timing hypothesis.

Much of Nicholas Kaldor ’ s work was based on the ideas of increasing returns to scale, path dependency, and the key differences between the primary and industrial sectors.

Much needed improvements were made in junior hospital doctors ’ salaries.

Much of the coast is now protected from further substantial development because of its environmental importance, which contributes to the region ’ s attractiveness to tourists and residents.

Much of the band ’ s enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s.

Much of the action of the story is not, as one might expect, about the science or engineering of creating an antigravity device to allow the conference to take place, but about how to persuade the world ’ s leading physicist to undertake the job.

Much to the dismay of his brother, the ultra-royalist comte d ’ Artois, he always dreaded the day he would die, believing that his brother, and heir, Artois, would abandon the centrist government for an ultra-royalist autocracy, which would not bring favourable results.

Much of Miró ’ s work lost the cluttered chaotic lack of focus that had defined his work thus far, and he experimented with collage and the process of painting within his work so as to reject the framing that traditional painting provided.

* Much of Palahniuk ’ s research on Choke was conducted with total strangers at the gym and sexual addiction groups.

Much like the prophet Isaiah who had to walk stripped and barefoot for three years and the prophet Ezekiel who had to lie on his side for 390 days and eat measured food, Jeremiah is instructed to perform a number of prophetic parables to illustrate the Lord ’ s message to his people.

Bertie ’ s middle name, “ Wilberforce ”, is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name ( mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves ).

Much of Wheaton ’ s address focused on the debate over violence in video games.

Much of Custer ’ s family resided in Monroe, included Elizabeth Bacon, Henry Armstrong Reed ( 1858 – 1876 ), and Boston Custer ( 1848 – 1876 ).

Also of interest this season, Bill Gillespie ’ s daughter, Lana returns for a three-episode stint to resolve the case started in " A Woman Much Admired.

Much of the society ’ s literature in its early days focused on interpreting the Bible literally to mean that the Earth is flat, although they did attempt to offer scientific explanations and evidence.

Much of the band ’ s history is chronicled in Henry Rollins ’ own published tour diary Get in the Van.