Sentence examples for a devastating sum from inspiring English sources

All told shady shelters and good old-fashioned fudging the tax cheating appears to be costing the Treasury well above $200 billion a year, a devastating sum in relation to the $1.1 trillion of income tax collections.

Add the December budget deal to this $20 billion switcheroo and the sequester cuts for 2014 were now down to $14 billion, hardly a devastating sum given the roughly $550 billion in previously projected funding.

IT IS a devastating prospect.

Then a devastating tsunami followed.

It was a devastating dismissal.

It was a devastating presentation.

This was a devastating shock.

This was a devastating blow.

It was a devastating blow.

A devastating force.

They have a devastating emotional force.