Sentence examples for a devastating development from inspiring English sources

It was a devastating development for the Avalanche because Roy accidentally caused it.

But for Yonkers, the state's fourth-largest city, the Supreme Court's action was a devastating development.

This is a devastating development for someone who proudly proclaims the good news of Brooklyn, and who built Citi Field as a shrine to the long-gone Brooklyn Dodgers.

A return to a nuclear standoff today would be a devastating development for international peace and security.

Instead of being criticized, Cayard deserves applause for his cool, no-panic response to a potentially devastating development: his spinnaker had just blown.

Bradley's injury was the most devastating development Friday.

Too many tourists might damage the Galápagos; too few might mire it in poverty, prey to more devastating development schemes.

The blockade has caused a devastating de-development of the Gaza Strip, a precarious fiscal position, mass unemployment, wider and deeper poverty and increased despair.

The European debt crisis: Last August, I said the paper's hefty investment in the Wall Street-centric DealBook blog would have been better allocated to covering the devastating developments in the euro zone.

In addition to the real dangers of physical violence in hazing, the threat of social scorn can have a devastating effect on development and progression in life.

Anoxic/hypoxic encephalopathy is a devastating condition; its development after prolonged cerebral hypoxia is often difficult to predict on clinical grounds.