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And, in a devastating review Fleeming Jenkin happily accepted the principle of natural selection but challenged its power to modify an ancestral species into descendent species, and thus limited its scope to the production of varieties.
The political landscape has changed since then, too, and in a devastating way for Democrats.
I was lonely watching without my son, and in a devastating plot turn, Robby's favorite character, Glenn, died in the opening scene right in front of his compatriots.
When I was 10 years old, my sister and I were in a devastating car accident.
The result followed a familiar script in Lebanon, where institutions have been paralyzed more often than not since the killing of Mr. Hariri and 22 others in a devastating bombing along Beirut's seafront in February 2005.
When the storm surge hit on Monday night, the Hudson overcame the sea wall at the north and south ends of the city in a devastating westward torrent that made an island of the slightly higher, eastern half of the city.
His mother passed away in a devastating boating accident near Fresno and his father is in serious condition.
It had been a particularly bad week in Iraq: continuing power failures, numerous ambushes, explosions at an oil pipeline in Kirkuk and a water main in Baghdad, fatal riots in Basra, and a devastating car bomb at the Jordanian Embassy.
"We are not the United States of Europe" is how Delrio put it, talking about the days when Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, the union's founding fathers, could look to carbon and steel as the way to create unity and address poverty in a devastated continent.
Mr. Hojnacki said that with his company facing competition from China, high energy costs and a devastating downturn in the auto industry, it cannot afford to be saddled with illegitimate compensation claims.
And in a famously devastating critique published in 1957, the American linguist Noam Chomsky demonstrated the hopelessness of Skinner's efforts to provide a behaviouristic account of human language learning and use.
