Sentence examples for after being devastated from inspiring English sources

It was renamed Gorgān in the 1930s after being devastated by an earthquake.

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, was rebuilt as an archetypal concrete jungle in the 1960s and 1970s after being devastated during the Korean War, and now has more than 10 million residents.

Cyprus Popular Bank, the country's second-largest financial institution, formerly known as Marfin Popular Bank, has been seeking 1.8 billion euros, or $2.25 billion, in new money after being devastated by its exposure to bad Greek debt.

After being devastated by a financial crisis and the 2007-9 recession, the home market appeared to turn a corner early last year, helped by steady job creation and extremely low interest rates.

Lepage scaled back for his following two pieces: his first one-man show Vinci, in 1986, about a photographer who embarks on a cultural odyssey across Europe after being devastated by a friend's suicide; and, a year later, Polygraph.

Watson was similarly upbeat and clearly relieved to be back to full fitness after being devastated for most of 2013 by a disease that drains sufferers of all energy.

Later that year Kumaratunga faced further upheaval after Sri Lanka was devastated by a massive tsunami.

(The fourth was to the Dominican Republic in 1998 after it was devastated by Hurricane Georges).

Shortly after Ronald Reagan was devastated in a 1984 debate, Mr. Dodd arrived early for a separate White House meeting and was invited to see the president.

Just after San Francisco was devastated by the earthquake and great fire of 1906, two outbreaks of the Black Death appeared, killing 172 people in a city of 350,000.

Mr. Andrews lives in one of the brightly colored, modernist houses rising on a small patch of the Lower Ninth, four years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.