Sentence examples for could lay waste to from inspiring English sources
Paving the BR-163 could lay waste to thousands of square kilometres of forest, carrying deep into the jungle the "arc of deforestation" through which it passes.
THE ARTS, PAGE E1 Focusing on Future Disasters The Gulf Coast hurricanes serve as a reminder that possible disasters could lay waste to cities and states around the nation.
At European jazz festivals, E.S.T. could lay waste to great American jazz bands that preceded or followed them on the same stage simply by having their tones always dialed in correctly while the other bands trusted to luck and the local engineer.
While the Mashco-Piro are at a turning point in what increasingly seems an inexorable route towards contact, Peru's culture minister is trying to cushion them from the illnesses that could lay waste to their population, the unscrupulous people who might enslave or exploit them and the missionaries who want to save their souls.
A hijacked ship carrying a nuclear weapon or radioactive "dirty bomb" could lay waste to a port, or block a sea lane like the Strait of Malacca, a narrow channel between Malaysia and Indonesia that carries a quarter of the world's trade and half of all its oil flows.
"The cost of failing to mobilize in the face of this threat is likely to be extremely high," the report says, noting studies suggesting that surpassing the 2-degree goal could lay waste to reefs, ice sheets, and various ecosystems.
Greece's embattled prime minister has survived the first of a trio of tests that could sink the Greek economy and lay waste to Europe's single currency by winning a parliamentary vote of confidence in his reshuffled government.
The pollution is so toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States -- or a storm or some other disrupting event -- could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.
The Nazis knew that they had to go abroad and lay waste to neighbouring societies before they could hope to bring their revolution to their own.
Unable to seize the capital, Monrovia, but with his forces in control of two-thirds of Liberia's territory, Taylor lay waste to the country, plundering every resource he could lay his hands on, from gold mines to hardwood timber.
