Sentence examples for as devastation from inspiring English sources

His real "crime" was in exposing the double standards of Shell, who had been quietly drilling oil for years in Nigeria, earning good profits for its shareholders but leaving the host community wallowing in levels of pollution that he described unflinchingly as "devastation", pointing out that the operations in Ogoniland betrayed Shell's own global standards.

In One More Time With Feeling, Cave tells a distantly intense, fable-like set of stories in the third person about a man dealing with grief, before asking – with just a hint of anger as well as devastation – "When did I become an object of pity?" As he observes, riffing on black holes that can swallow our universe entire: "It's the invisible things that have so much mass".

The event (GLIDE No. FF-2015-000077-BTN) complemptiedmpthed the lake (Fig. 2 and 4), yet the resultant GLOF was relatively small considering the unleased water volume as well as devastation.

In the preface, Mr. Dorgan says such an attack could cause 10,000 times as much devastation as the terrorists' strikes on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Anytime you see as much devastation as what happened in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and in Joplin, Mo., it brings it to everybody's minds," says Mike Vaughn, president of the National Storm Shelter Association, referring to devastating tornadoes that swept through both cities last year.

RUDRAPRAYAG, Uttarakhand —The flash floods in Uttarakhand have caused damage in all the hilly districts of the state, but no district has experienced as much devastation as Rudraprayag, home to the Kedarnath shrine, which draws thousands of pilgrims every summer.

The near-supersonic lateral blast, loaded with volcanic debris, caused devastation as far as 19 mile from the volcano.

Rumours floated that there were plans afoot to close the entire operation – a decision that would have thrown nearby Swansea, Llanelli, Neath, Bridgend, Newport and Ebbw Vale into a state of economic devastation, as well as Port Talbot itself.

There was widespread devastation as far as the eye could see – it was quite unreal and hard to take in.

These need not be nukes; biological and chemical weapons can wreak devastation as well.

In the Inquirer interview, Mr. Ward spoke of the fire as a devastation — but not an unalloyed one.