Sentence examples for a devastating extent from inspiring English sources

Western officials should make it clear that Iran's oil proceeds can be reduced to a devastating extent and that economic pain will be calibrated to Iranian policy.

A decade on, a new set of figures reveals the devastating extent to which he has succeeded.

But the devastating extent of the editing is clear: key sequences are reduced to montages and numerous scenes stop just as they're getting started.

"These enemies of mine never quite understood the devastating extent of that catastrophic change and the way it affected the day-to-day, in-love-and-hate existence of my husband and me to the very end.

The artist might have had in mind the spectacular hanging and burning, in 1498, of the puritanical reformer Savonarola, whose teachings may have influenced him, though to nothing like the devastating extent that they did his older peer Botticelli, who piously renounced the paganism of his own greatest works and was rumored to have burned some of them.

To a certain extent, a disaster is seen as a crisis with a devastating ending (Tierney 2007).

"Rape is a devastating crime and we can't solve it unless we know the full extent of it," said Vice President Joe Biden, the author of the landmark Violence Against Women Act.

It has helped to the extent that a panic over banks or sovereigns banking crisis would obviously have had a devastating impact on the wider economy.

IT IS a devastating prospect.

Then a devastating tsunami followed.

It was a devastating dismissal.