Sentence examples for against devastation from inspiring English sources

In this piercing collection of stories, characters struggle against devastation: the broken promise of a second marriage, the resurfacing of old family wounds, the death of a nearly grown child.

Almost all take place in the San Francisco Bay Area, where characters smack in the middle of middle age are struggling against devastation: the broken promise of a second marriage, the resurfacing of old family wounds, the death of a nearly grown child.

For most of his life, Mendes fought against the devastation of the Amazon rain forest.

In West Papua, there are songs of respect for the land and songs of anger against its devastation.

Against such devastation, how does the Wilpon family mission to get back what they lost to Madoff match up with eventually pursuing the next Jose Reyes?

It's difficult to imagine that Harrelson's character has not been shaped to some degree by his father – the early religion, the subsequent hell-raising, the campaigning (against environmental devastation, testing on monkeys, unethical energy, defence spending).

Credited to four directors of photography, the movie is never less than stunning, especially when visiting the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, which houses thousands of samples to safeguard against crop devastation, or poking around a gritty recycling plant in Mumbai.

All around him there were protests against the devastation of the Iraq war - and Adebolajo shared that anger.

She becomes a bulwark against the devastation the sisters have suffered.

How can they fight against environmental devastation and dangerous shifts in safety regulations when almost no government officials or civic leaders are willing to join them?

"Selma" director Ava DuVernay has found her next feature film: a "sweeping love story and complex murder mystery" set against the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.