Sentence examples for cost of devastation from inspiring English sources

As we've seen elsewhere, it's the cost of devastation of whole communities.

Haiti was counting the cost of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Matthew on Saturday night, with almost 900 inhabitants killed and tens of thousands displaced in the Caribbean country.

Cost of the devastation: $1.5 billion.

The estimated cost of the devastation has been $52.9 billion — a tenfold increase over the past decade.

The economic cost of this devastation was clearly huge; the health costs were equally high.

Katrina did, but the human costs of the devastation largely masked the effects on wildlife and ecosystems.

The final tally could be even higher, as councils are still counting the cost of the winter devastation.

But although political leaders of both parties expressed sympathy for the victims, it took only hours for Washington to face off over the possible cost of repairing the devastation and how it would be paid.

He was born in the last weeks of World War II, and the human cost and devastation of that conflict remain the spine and the hook of his art.

They put the cost of dealing with the wider devastation of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa at $15 billion annually.

The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world, causing human misery, enormous cost of life and gigantic environmental devastation".