Sentence examples for capable of devastation from inspiring English sources

Among the other unsettling disease news this summer, you've probably seen mention of influenza, that old familiar zoonosis, quite capable of devastation and melodrama all its own.

Indeed, by Russell's account, economic power and political power are both capable of devastation: :"In democratic countries, the most important private organisations are economic.

But North Korea has proved itself capable of withstanding economic devastation far exceeding Iran's.

Grasshoppers are capable of causing widespread devastation of the agricultural crops grown in many countries throughout the world.

On the other hand, an impact by a 100-metre (328-foot) NEO, the smallest believed capable of causing regional devastation, is estimated to occur about once every 1,000 years on average.

There are nearly a billion objects in our Solar System capable of causing that level of devastation on Earth, and 300,000 of them are already in our neighborhood.

The Kel-Tec, while not being capable of producing the far-reaching devastation of a well-constructed car bomb, at least might have produced a measure of Mr. Shahzad's desired effect.

The problem is that he is the President of the United States, and that the one appetite that he does have is for announcing his authority through violence, a thing capable of an unimaginable resonance and devastation.

The detail of his experience is fascinating, if horrifying - and he is also capable of humour despite witnessing such devastation: "Does insurance cover exposure to radiation?

She became obsolescent following the 1871 launching of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, was placed in reserve in 1875, and was paid off in 1883.

Derechos are capable of causing widespread damage and landscape devastation.