Investigators blamed the destruction on the poor quality of many buildings and a lack of earthquake-resistant structures.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

Aparajita Datta helped create a program to reduce hunting and plant destruction.

VOA: special.2010.09.22

He said Indians could escape destruction by dancing a special dance.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

And that involves the intentional destruction of a group in whole or in part for religious,ethnic or racial reasons.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Kvit told VOA the recent destruction of books in Ukraine is not so much a tragedy, as it is a farce.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Marysville became a symbol for the destruction of the Feb.7 bushfires, a once vibrant community reduced to dust.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

"If it could avoid a bloodbath and destruction and displacement, I think that would be a great achievement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

In 2003,he renounced weapons of mass destruction, a shrewd move in the year the United States invaded Iraq in pursuit of such arms.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

It is now up to Perseus to lead a battle with the monsters loosed by the gods and save the city-state of Argos from destruction.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Just last month,Mr.Blair was asked in a BBC interview what he would have done if he had known that Saddam did not hold any weapons of mass destruction in 2003.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

These genes are involved in a number of inherited metabolic disorders, including Tay Sachs, a rare,incurable and usually fatal disease that causes the destruction of nerve cells in young children.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

Russians were awoken to the threat posed by the destruction of a hydroelectric plant last year, when a major accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia threatened the lives of millions of people downstream.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

He says what South Korea and its allies have a problem with is the North's ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction at a long range, regardless of what is mounted on top of this particular rocket.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

The war was sold to his cabinet, to parliament and to the British people on the basis that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous man holding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that could be unleashed within 45 minutes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"The mission found that the attack on the only remaining flour-producing factory, the destruction of a large part of the Gaza egg production, the bulldozing of huge tracts of agricultural land, and the bombing of some could not on any basis be justified on military grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29