1.   Instead of playing the fiddle, they could sip cocktails and play poker while nuclear war devastated the world outside their bunker.

2.   The war devastated the economy and saddled the country with a huge foreign debt.

3.   Security was high on the agenda, and there was also talk about how to feed millions of refugees and rebuild a land devastated by war.

4.   The site was forever devastated by war, a moonscape where only unexploded shells remained when the fighting had ended.

5.   As a poor country devastated by war, Afghanistan is in no position to enforce its will on other nation.

6.   But interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai said reconstructing the statues was part of rebuilding Afghanistan, a nation devastated by war for over two decades.

7.   Michael Vickery, a specialist on Cambodia at the University of Malaysia, said the Khmer Rouge inherited a country devastated by war.

8.   The communications systems in Kandahar and Kabul are antiquated and have been virtually devastated by war.

9.   The war devastated what had been the poorest republic in the Soviet Union and it has never recovered.