Nationalist politics, walled off for decades by an artificial silence, have emerged practically unscathed from the ruins of Communism's enforced internationalism.

The rest of the building, from a law office to a car dealer, remained practically unscathed.

The church survived the war practically unscathed but was dynamited in 1968 during the communist regime of East Germany.

The church survived the war practically unscathed, unlike the Augusteum next to it.

But there's more to the town than its impressive needlework - Bayeux was the first town to be liberated after D-Day, and is one of the few in Calvados to have survived WWII practically unscathed.

And Mr. Gallison, 38, has a long history of regulatory run-ins, from which he has managed to emerge practically unscathed, often by settling complaints without admitting or denying the charges.

The buoys had been left practically unscathed, and the energy weapon-armed monitors that accompanied Dumont's missile ships had sailed into a blowtorch.

His international reputation is so secure that his work has come practically unscathed through the art market's doldrums.

Today these areas remain practically unscathed by human interference and are one of the few accessible areas on earth where various native Central American animal and plant species can be observed undisturbed in their natural habitat.

Mr. Chicas, 42, knows he is lucky to have survived practically unscathed.