More than four thousand homes were destroyed when a nearby flood wall broke.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Farms were burned. Crops were destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Hospitals,a hotel and school facilities were among the buildings that were destroyed Wednesday in Padang, which has a population of about 900,000.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Witnesses said a hospital in the capital collapsed, a luxury hotel in Petionville had sustained major damage and many other buildings were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

One of the injured also died in the hospital. A downtown post office and market were destroyed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Vast areas of farmland and forest were destroyed in Australia's worst ever wildfire disaster.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

The company says two turbines were destroyed and the facility has been shut down.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Lincoln admitted that, even if the dispute could be settled peacefully, there were those who wanted to see the Union destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Their economy was destroyed. In many areas, there was little food and the people were hungry.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

River boats had been destroyed. And roads and bridges were in terrible condition.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Some -- like Atlanta were completely destroyed by Union forces.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

"You find quite a lot of stories where Somali fishermen were harassed patrollers, their nets destroyed, their equipment destroyed, their boats rammed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

(SAYING) A Fallujah resident said one of the houses destroyed belonged to a policeman killed two years ago he says victims were family members.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

The world was literally destroyed by a corporation called "buy in large" and the only people that were left in the world were these few incredibly obese individuals floating in space."

VOA: standard.2010.01.23