Sentence examples for commit devastation from inspiring English sources
The charge against her is conspiring with a group to commit devastation and plundering during the Genoa meeting, said the family's lawyer, Dick Atkins of Philadelphia.
We hear it in the voices of screaming demagogues, who sound so chillingly like those who have controlled other puppet-like masses to commit such evil, stupid devastation; to wreck entire civilizations, peoples and cultures.
The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander called the result of the earthquake an "almost unprecedented level of devastation", and committed the UK to ₤20 million in aid, while France promised €10 million.
States would not be pitted against each other and we would likely have even more resources committed toward a comprehensive, multi-tiered solution that avoids economic devastation of shipping, agriculture, and industry in the region.
During the Bush years, for example, there was widespread outrage at the U.S. for its invasion of Iraq, its support for Israel's devastation of Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and Gaza, again in 2009 and the horrors committed at Abu Ghraib.
Along the way, he catalogued the environmental devastation caused by humanity's determination to toast en masse — a vast crime against nature committed in the name of breakfast.
The devastation extends worldwide.
