Sentence examples for a devastation to from inspiring English sources

Both were well aware that the consequences of nuclear war would be a devastation to mankind, the world's greatest environmental disaster.

So as a result of that, I really started thinking this is great, we were able to take her from a state of devastation to sort of drawing a line and being over it.

Musa Alhaji Bukar, a local official, described a scene of devastation to the BBC.

In Texas, too, there has been devastation, and then heroism, and there will be, surely, a longer-gestating devastation to come.

"Pure military action would create a lot of devastation, to the extent that people would turn against the government".

Until the 5th century BC, the Greeks had little expertise in siege warfare and relied on a strategy of devastation to draw the enemy out; they destroyed crops, trees and houses.

What about the safety of my children?" Early storm is a warning of devastation to come in South Sudan 10 March 2014 – The storm came with such speed and ferocity that no one was prepared, twenty year-old Thot told me the following morning, as families around us struggled to find places out of the water and mud to dry their mattresses and clothing.

Here's what caught my eye in the book room this week: The cover for the paperback edition of Rawi Hage's IMPAC Dublin Award-winning novel "De Niro's Game": if it's possible for an image of devastation to be beautiful, this certainly qualifies.

By Andrea Walker August 12, 2008 Here's what caught my eye in the book room this week: The cover for the paperback edition of Rawi Hage's IMPAC Dublin Award-winning novel "De Niro's Game": if it's possible for an image of devastation to be beautiful, this certainly qualifies.

And removing only a small number of stones from a dam causes later devastation to everyone living below it.

On the other a family stood amid the devastation to lay candles for a missing loved one.