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In the last war Russia lost more than ten million killed and its lands and factories were devastated.

The nation would be utterly devastated.

it raced across the Pacific at 300 miles an hour, devastated the coasts of Java and Sumatra with waves 100 to 130 feet high, and pounded the shore as far away as San Francisco.

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylos in Asia Minor and turned into stone as she wept.

In the aftermath of the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, Heigo took the 13-year-old Akira to view the devastation.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

The consequent blockade along both the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders has devastated the economy, because of Armenia's dependence on outside supplies of energy and most raw materials.

The ill-feeling, influenced by the ravages of members of the Order in Poland, culminated in a war which began in December 1519 and devastated Prussia.

A fire devastated the city in 1656.

It was only after the raids were underway that a call went out to landowners to gather men for battle, and large regions could be devastated before the newly assembled army arrived.

Enraged at the barbaric act, Peter put himself at the head of an army and devastated the country between the Douro and the Minho rivers before he was reconciled to his father in early 1357.

Benevolent and sympathetic in disposition, he won the affection of his people by fearlessly visiting districts ravaged by cholera or devastated by earthquake in 1885.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

Ammianus ' work contains a detailed description of the tsunami in Alexandria which devastated the metropolis and the shores of the eastern Mediterranean on 21 July 365.

He probably succumbed to the yellow fever that had devastated the voyage.

The devastated site was cleared of debris.

He is devastated and later confesses to Kat and Albert, who try to comfort him and reassure him that it is only part of the war.

The district was devastated by Genghis Khan, and has never since fully recovered its prosperity.

His cavalry ravaged the nearby woods and the countryside, while the rest of the troopes moved to Turrus, a castle located in the present municipality of Algarinejo, which was surrounded within five days, while its environs were also devastated.

A devastated Niobe and her remaining children were turned to stone by Artemis as they wept.

A nuclear war would no longer be a favorable exchange for the US, as both countries would be devastated.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá (" the Master ") was devastated when hearing the news that him and his family were to be exiled separately from Bahá ' u ' lláh.

His death devastated the family – particularly his mother and father – and the grieving ` Abdu ' l-Bahá kept a night-long vigil beside his brother ’ s body.

She believes that he would not have stooped to unethical behavior if he had not been devastated by her abandonment and in dire financial straits.