Women, children and elderly persons to mention only those vulnerable groups of society continue to be subjected to the devastating effects of armed conflict.

It should not break the fragile peace through premature withdrawal.

It has been proven time and again how vulnerable we all are to the violent and destructive forces of nature.

The air incursions elevate tension and disrupt the fragile calm along the Blue Line.

Creative Self Disruption

The political momentum is there. It is fragile it could easily be spoiled.

She's so fragile that the slightest mistake could compromise everything.

Other panellists spoke of similar experiences of devastation and vulnerability after hurricane Ivan hit the Caribbean in 2004.

Of those 195 townships, 51 sustained partial damage, 30 sustained considerable damage, 17 sustained major damage and a further 17 sustained catastrophic damage.

That most recent tragedy has dramatically illustrated the vulnerability and hazards many of us will continue to face from

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Rapid environmental change associated with insecurity and losses of livelihoods undermine the resilience of societies and increase their vulnerability.

A rather destructive action game.

However, they are weapons of mass disruption.

The recent spate of devastation caused by these natural disasters brings into sharper focus the extreme vulnerability of low lying coastal areas and small island developing States.

Something dramatic, but not destructive.

We are well aware of the need to take urgent action to prevent, and manage the effects of, destructive fishing practices, including bottom trawling, which have an adverse impact on vulnerable marine ecosystems, and we firmly support such action.

Warsaw destroyed for the sake of destruction.

He considers any such move subversive not just of the project at hand, but of international legality in general.

If that spirit is dampened... it would have a depressing effect and delay her recovery.

And one reason is because of something I call the growing lethality of hatred.

Some delegations underlined the need to adopt measures, including marine protected areas, to limit the effects of destructive fishing practices on vulnerable marine ecosystems and habitats.

PH I hope you realize how subversive that is.

Many of these subsidies go to destructive fishing practices.

This destructive power takes many different forms.

This is a destructive policy which is reversing the process.

But they will do global economic damage, because they don't have to hit, necessarily, to do this kind of damage.

Considerable uncertainty in the business picture.

Make a sap out of me? You seem to be doing very well by yourself

And therefore, you're not talking about incremental innovation, you're talking about disruptive innovation.

48. Mr. Lozano (Mexico) said that the two devastating hurricanes which had struck his country in rapid succession in 1997 had affected the most vulnerable sectors of the population most severely.

Indeed, mental illnesses are also very damaging to people's lives, but beyond just the burden of disease, let us consider the absolute numbers.

Property destruction

Rat Trap

Sabotage! Sabotage!

It was damaged.

Natural disasters have also had a destructive impact of exceptional scale.

Damaging impacts are caused by a range of destructive fishing techniques and by the ever present scourge of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

28. We are deeply concerned about the devastating impact of the global HIV AIDS epidemic, which undermines efforts to eradicate poverty.

Now, when these things blow up, they're not going to do global ecological damage.

Africa, in particular, has witnessed many civil wars whose consequences have been devastating.

In addition, 7,201 residential houses were damaged 5,718 of these suffered partial damage, 1,053 suffered substantial damage and 430 were completely destroyed.

In many cases, just one such destructive episode was sufficient to destroy the social and economic infrastructure, including the communications network.

Moreover, with their devastating power, nuclear weapons cause catastrophic destruction they can in an instant take a tremendous toll in human life and destroy the basic infrastructure of a society.

Theft, extortion, destruction, degradation and damage