Sentence examples for been decimated by a from inspiring English sources

The state's news organizations, once vigorous watchdogs, have been decimated by a deep industry downturn.

These, Benito explained, had been dug for the benefit of rabbits, which in Spain — and, indeed, throughout Europe — have been decimated by a disease known as myxomatosis.

From above, the lines of earthen levees that line the Missouri River in Mills County, Iowa, look like they have been decimated by a marauding army.

His return was well timed, coming just after Mr. Sadr's forces had been decimated by a series of blistering American attacks.

G.M.'s revenues and profits have been decimated by a sharp decline in sales of its trucks and big sport utility vehicles.

He contends that some art thieves have ties to the Brise de Mer — a Corsican criminal gang that has been decimated by a wave of bloodletting — but generally, he believes, they are diversified thieves who just want product to sell.

In view of the difficulty of surrounding a mountain stronghold such as Jerusalem, and of the minor importance of this town for the main purpose of the campaign, Sennacherib cut short the attack and left Palestine with his army, which according to the Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 19 35) had been decimated by an epidemic.

When you're bipolar, when you've been decimated by an eating disorder and alcoholism, when your arms are crisscrossed with scars from when you used to cut yourself, a little transitory pain is nothing at all.

Since the 1960s, the species has been decimated by an array of threats: fires, mudslides, pesticides, fungal infections, loss of habitat as a result of development, and the appetites of nonnative trout, bullfrogs and crayfish.

For the past 4 years, Syria has been decimated by an ugly civil war -- hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been displaced, the economy has collapsed, and society has been dismantled.

The incoming data R n is decimated by a factor D and then fed to the corresponding decimated version of the original matched filter.