In Gaza, there is hope amidst rubble, destruction, and loss.

The only alternative to peace is further violence and destruction.

The Haitian government itself has been reduced to paralysis by death and destruction.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction.

The devastation and destruction brought about by the prevalence of armed conflict broadens and enlarges the scope for national and international action.

It is crumbling because of the devastating effects of successive natural disasters and the ecological damage to its deteriorated environment.

On the stage, it all ends in a German way in terror and destruction.

A short while ago, a piece of news stabbed my heart hard and petrified my eyes in disbelief.

In the face of death and destruction, our mundane differences evaporated, and we all became one even if for a few hours.

We have experienced unspeakable violence wreaked by war, terror and conflict, bringing death, destruction and suffering to millions.

I was covering the war in Afghanistan, and I witnessed, as a reporter for Al Jazeera, the amount of suffering and destruction that emerged out of a war like that.

That, too, is not surprising, because the situation remains an amorphous mix of hope and destruction.

Quote The easy possibility of writing letters must have brought wrack and ruin to the souls of the world.

Developing countries, it is said, are headed for strong growth, regardless of the doom and gloom that has returned to Europe and the United States.

Five years later, while scenes of death and devastation repeat themselves in Gaza, Israel has redoubled its online propaganda in an attempt to show the world its kinder side.

We can say that despite the siege and destruction, despite the last war on Gaza, the pass rates are positive and the results better than those of the previous year.

The devastation wrought by the increased intensity of hurricanes can set back our development efforts by decades, and has indeed done so.

Through that we can achieve the goal of the Charter of the United Nations of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war and destruction.

Year after year, the Palestinian people continued to be plagued with more death and destruction and further human rights violations.

And in general, I got this sort of idea that the poor in the world lived lives that were wrought with suffering and sadness, devastation, hopelessness.

There are many lessons that emerge from the tsunami that brought such devastation and loss of life to Asia.

H.G. Wells was only partly right the race between morality and destruction encompasses not just war, but economic life as well.

Hate preachers use highly modern methods to enhance their personal power and to create havoc around them.

The ISIS, an Al Qaeda off shoot has come to occupy large swathes of Syria and Iraq, leaving behind a trail of horror and destruction in a few months.

Towering tsunami waves struck two thirds of the coastal areas of our island nation, leaving in its wake death and destruction on a scale hitherto unknown by the world.

If we are ill prepared, global warming will cause more deaths and devastation, especially in poor countries and fragile societies. Adaptation would also mean saving many lives from catastrophes not related to global warming.

The Western countries, Turkey, and most of the Arab world are incensed by the brutal killing and destruction, and pressure to intervene and stiffen international sanctions is building.

In such hybrid wars, conventional and irregular forces, combatants and civilians, and physical destruction and information warfare become thoroughly intertwined.

The report of the Secretary General is clear on the devastation and the destruction of the environment caused by the recent floods in Haiti, but today that is no longer news.

On 26 December 2004, as we are all painfully aware, the Indian Ocean tsunami struck, causing death and destruction across two continents.

Before I proceed further, I extend sincere condolences to the American people and Government following the tragic deaths and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.

A small asteroid, say a half mile wide, would touch off firestorms followed by severe global cooling from the debris kicked up Carl Sagan's nuclear winter thing.

But the idea that it could be enforced by the Imperial Japanese Army running amok through China and Southeast Asia was disastrous.

Without their involvement, Assad s regime would most likely have remained repressive with their involvement, Syria has become a site of mass death and destruction.

No Member State that calls for violence, death and destruction, as the President of Iran did yesterday, deserves a seat in this civilized body, the United Nations.

In 2004, I had a little baby boy, and I call him my miracle child, because after seeing so much death and destruction and chaos and darkness in my life, this ray of hope was born.

An unprecedented Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004 spread death and destruction over 14 countries on two continents.

Around the entire planet, we are approaching some kind of singularity, with the market pandering to our fundamental short term natures by offering us instant gratification and long term destruction.

In addition to death and destruction, the Palestinian population continues to be terrorized by the constant barrage of artillery shelling and the excruciating sound of Israeli warplanes hovering over their cities, towns and villages.

The desolation seen two weeks ago in the southern part of the United States of America has clearly demonstrated the vulnerabilities of low lying coastal areas, which are so similar to those of small island developing States.

Recent experience has shown that death, destruction, chaos and the plague of hatred left by those conflicts make the task of reconciliation and reconstruction of those States more complex.

It is also imperative that reconstruction efforts include the establishment of a warning system to reduce the likelihood that widespread death and destruction from such a disaster will occur again.

This clash of perceptions has caught the world s policy experts and analysts off guard. That, too, is not surprising, because the situation remains an amorphous mix of hope and destruction.

Humanity had to abandon its warlike ways, Wells said, or technology would decimate it.

Instead, we witness a process of economic globalization that has escaped political control and, as such, is causing economic havoc as well as ecological devastation in many parts of the world.