From the air, he wrote, the entire city looked as though it had been destroyed.
Last week, it was reported that Russian troops were evacuating Georgians whose homes had been destroyed.
The committee received 120, 000 pages of documentation, and asked for more that had been destroyed.
But Labour leader Ed Miliband branded the Big Society a "failure", which had been destroyed by government cuts.
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Ministers confirmed that 100, 000 trees had been destroyed to try to prevent the spread of the ash dieback disease.
It was believed that every recording of the singer's performing number two hit "The Jean Genie" had been destroyed.
Insull and Mellon eventually triumphed but not before their reputations had been destroyed.
At the end of the war, Miss Nakamura felt that the geisha profession, like Tokyo itself, had been destroyed.
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In evidence , McNeill's victims, who cannot be named, told how their lives had been destroyed by the abuse.
In Longmen village, authorities said nearly all the buildings had been destroyed in a frightening minute-long shaking by the quake.
Mr Straw said serious miscarriages of justice had occurred on occasions when the DNA samples and fingerprints had been destroyed.
Speaking by phone from the small town of Mashkeel, local resident Farooq Kubdani said that hundreds of houses had been destroyed.
The people had dispersed the barracks had been destroyed and stripped of everything in them, the tile taken off the walls.
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China's Xinhua news agency quoted officials in Yunnan as saying 6, 650 houses had been destroyed in the province and 430, 000 others damaged.
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When it emerged a video that captured the accident from inside the plane had been destroyed, they were dismissed from the Marine Corps.
Last year, 49 counts against Planned Parenthood were dismissed because state health department records they were based on had been destroyed, prosecutors said.
In the years after, if a book was discovered to be missing it was easy to assume it had been destroyed in the war.
Malian and Nigerien security sources also reported the strikes, saying two Islamist bases with fuel stocks and weapon dumps near Gao had been destroyed.
Across the globe, significant collections had been destroyed as a result of looting or dispersal, illegal trading, destruction, and inadequate storage facilities and budgets.
Professor Stead said a sense of community had been destroyed by factors such as the decline of pubs and churches, and the building of high-rise flats.
Christian aid organization World Vision, which is active in the affected region, said at least 100 homes had been destroyed in Lata and that power outages were widespread.
Respect's Yvonne Ridley said the area's coal industry had been destroyed and more needed to be done to support ex-miners who were unemployed, on benefits or suffering from health problems.
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The fire service said two Tesco Express stores in Waterlooville had been destroyed by fire in recent years - on Lavender Road in September 2011 and on Grassmere Way in July 2010.
Although Lesley's clothes had been destroyed in 1985, a few fibres had been preserved attached to strips of adhesive tape from which forensic scientists were able to extract samples of the killer's bodily fluids.
"It was like visiting two different eras, as so much of the city that I first saw in 1994 had been destroyed and replaced with new construction, " he wrote in an e-mail to CNN.
Using a database of patients with brain injuries kept by researchers at the University of Iowa, they found five patients in whom the relevant brain areas had been destroyed by stroke or other injuries.
The story goes that when President Richard Nixon had asked to see the legendary Alexandria Library on a visit to Egypt and was informed that it had been destroyed sometime in the distant archaeological past, it also turned out that his hosts had no idea where it had been.
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Simultaneously KMart had been financially destroyed by the faster moving and more aggressive Wal-Mart.
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Mr Bush said finance would be restricted to existing stem cell lines from embryos that had already been destroyed.
AD, numerous reincarnations of the great original library had already been destroyed.
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