Sentence examples for cultural devastation from inspiring English sources

When told of the possible impact of the project, ethnic groups and communities near the lake predicted widespread conflict, hunger and cultural devastation.

"The thesis," he writes, "is that there was a 'dynamic of destruction' which produced the most extensive cultural devastation and mass killing in Europe since the Thirty Years War".

Philosopher Jonathan Lear of the University of Chicago wrote a fascinating book a few years ago titled Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am, Robert Gandt Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections, Robert D. Stolorow Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, Jonathan Lear World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-CartesianPsychoanalysis, Robert D. Stolorow.

Vonnegut imagines a near future marked by ecological and cultural devastation, in which the only human endeavor uniting the world is a plan to launch a rocket ship full of semen to the Andromeda Galaxy, in the hope of creating a new race.

The Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadžić was indicted for "wanton destruction of homes, religious and cultural buildings" and "devastation not justified by military necessity" across eastern Slavonia, and for deporting Vukovar's non-Serb population.

"For Mr. Clark to amass his collection cost Butte economic, cultural and environmental devastation," Mr. Bodish said.

Other programs could highlight the cultural and physical devastation wrought by the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

After seven years of hearings, and testimony from thousands of witnesses, the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on Tuesday for a new era of forgiveness and understanding even as it exposed the cultural and personal devastation inflicted by the residential schools policy in excruciating detail.

"On the other hand, the younger generations have been heavily influenced by the cultural and idealistic devastation of the past twenty years.

What better place to assert a vision of healing that includes addressing historic cultural wounds, ecological devastation, mutual respect for each other, stewardship with the land and water; and merging these responsibilities with the hope of science than in Hawaii?