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The rabbit went on to become a devastating pest.

Islamic militancy had become a devastating force throughout the Middle East.

Se7en promised a pulpy police procedural but twisted to become a devastating morality tale.

oryzae (Xoo) has been become a devastating disease of rice worldwide in 1960s and 1970s when the high-yielding varieties were introduced3.

But the increasing burden of Irish banking losses, which some economists say could push Ireland's debt-to-G.D.P. ratio to 115 percent, has become a devastating millstone for the government, which at the beginning of the crisis guaranteed not just the deposits of its banks, but bondholders as well -- a move that remains extremely controversial today.

A dampening of that support undermines the rebels' ability to fight and win what has become a devastating war of attrition, perpetuating the violence that has left nearly 40,000 dead, hundreds of thousands in refugee camps and more than a million forced from their homes.

Does It Hold Clues for Today March 28 28) makes no mention of the environment in which the so-called Spanish flu became a devastating global plague.

The Ferguson fire began in an extremely vulnerable location — in the heart of mountainous wildlands that had become a tinderbox, devastated by trees killed by five years of drought and whose weakened condition left them to be infested by bark beetles.

Cooper's exuberant overlapping and neat link-up play with Martin Peters was a nod to the great Brazilian pioneer of attacking full-backs Nilton Santos, who became such a devastating attacking threat during the 1958 World Cup.

This book becomes a quietly devastating history of Vichy France's anti-Semitic machinations.

It would be seven long years before the world saw Pretty Woman and that journey saw the film nearly die three times, a cast that could've ended up with Molly Ringwald opposite Highlander (Christopher Lambert, a friend I later worked with), and a dark drama with a devastating ending become a beloved romantic comedy.