Sentence examples for a devastating strike from inspiring English sources

How can we reduce the targets of terrorism, getting rid of concentrations of people of a particular type to reduce the likelihood of a devastating strike?

It was to be the worst in British history, and a devastating strike against America.

Those were painful years for baseball — with a devastating strike and a mutated record book — but Olson hopes to highlight the fun times.

He said that Israel would automatically respond if Iraq attacked it, then let Washington known that Israel would respond only if subjected to a devastating strike.

GM recently announced that more than 30,000 American workers had accepted a buy-out offer, but it has still not secured a settlement at its former parts unit, Delphi, where a devastating strike remains a possibility.

Indonesian police have declared the bombings to be the work of Noordin Mohammed Top, a Malaysian national who has been on the run in Southeast Asia since 2002, when his outfit was declared responsible for the first Bali bombing, a devastating strike that claimed dozens of Australian and other expatriate lives.

By comparison, Mr. Obama's biggest accomplishments have been largely defensive: a full withdrawal from Iraq and devastating strikes against the core leadership of Al Qaeda.

IN 1969, in the midst of devastating strikes, rising racial conflict, sinking finances, terrifying crime rates and an expanding, dysfunctional city bureaucracy, the pugilistic writer Norman Mailer made a quixotic bid for mayor of New York.

The Syrian opposition has seized on a UN finding that sarin used in a devastating chemical strike last August was likely to have come from the regime's supplies of the weapon as proof that loyalist forces carried out the attack.

They have also stressed that India would respond with a devastating retaliatory nuclear strike.

But that is no more than the constitution says and the two sides immediately fell out about the practical import of what they had signed up to.Mr Chávez, a populist former army officer, has survived two opposition attempts to unseat him, first through a coup and then through a devastating two-month strike that shattered the economy.