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They took a devastating toll on local wildlife and killed 173 people.

"Opioid abuse and addiction have taken a devastating toll on American families.

Erratic weather, which has brought floods and drought, and rising food prices are taking a devastating toll on east Africa.

His internal critique became increasingly adamant after 1991, when the loss of the Soviet Union's financial support began taking a devastating toll on the country's economy.

The Toll By 2007, with a fertilizer plant at Bayji, Iraq, back up and running, fertilizer-based explosives started taking a devastating toll on coalition forces.

PAGE A8 AIDS and Africa's Teachers In Ivory Coast and elsewhere in Africa, where many educational systems are already troubled, AIDS has had a devastating toll on teachers.

Humans are caught up in a grand planetary experiment of lowering the ocean's pH, with a potentially devastating toll on marine life.

These climate change-induced effects have taken a particularly devastating toll on the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia.

'Unparalleled brutality' In DRC, where years of war have taken a devastating toll, sexual violence has occurred on a mass scale.

Many nematodes are parasites that cause billions of dollars of damage to agricultural crops every year and levy an even more devastating toll on human health, especially in developing countries.

"There was a devastating toll.