KUALA LUMPUR — Rattled by earthquakes, deluged by typhoons and devastated by a tsunami, Asia in recent years has repeatedly felt its vulnerability to natural disasters.
The country is now a failed state, a breeding ground for terrorists and human traffickers, ruled by dueling parliaments and devastated by a civil war that has killed thousands of people.
Malta's president, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, who rode in the supercar a few hours before the crash, was left "traumatised and devastated" by the incident, a spokeswoman for her office said.
Whistler's Venice Living in London beyond his means and devastated by legal expenses in a libel suit against the critic John Ruskin, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) declared bankruptcy in 1879.
"The Face" mentor and model Naomi Campbell said she was "deeply shocked and devastated by the news," posting a photo of herself with the designer on WhoSay.
Sarajevo was besieged and devastated by the Bosnian Serbs.
"The idea that you could pine for a girl, and be devastated by a girl makes an adult man uncomfortable.
In 1260, however, Volhynia and Galicia were devastated by a Mongol invasion and forced to recognize the Mongol khan as their overlord.
The fighting did not cease, and Angola was devastated by a 27-year civil war between M.P.L.A. and Unita factions, in which about 500,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.
Europe is already so integrated that banks across the Continent own lots of debt issued by other countries, and could be devastated by a series of defaults.
At the bottom of the skyscraper, stone benches carved with classical epitaphs remind us that this, as much as the World Trade Centre site for which Foster failed to get the commission, is a place of memorial and pain, devastated by an IRA bomb.
