The city was spared significant destruction during the War. City Hall was spared but was badly damaged. They are thus spared from death and damnation. Residents wondered why Hiroshima had been spared destruction by firebombing. There is speculation that he probably would have been spared had he talked. The US, of course, had been spared industrial and civilian devastation. Indeed, his people were spared, if subjugated. Levi's illness spared him this fate. After all, we had spared people before. However, we may not be spared nuclear strikes against coastal cities. Initially despite this indiscretion, the club was spared any disciplinary action. Copin's confession was probably in return for the promise that his life should be spared. Before this, however, they had spared no age. He spared her life and made her his queen. No forces could be spared to protect distant Britain.