Sentence examples for decimated population from inspiring English sources

It remained popular until the Second World War, when a combination of the need for increased wartime food production (which resulted in many horses being sent to the slaughterhouse), and increased farm mechanisation which followed the war decimated population numbers.

Mitchell turned Ravenhill's text into a song cycle set at the time of the Black Death, in which a decimated population is struggling to maintain social order.

The original Rapa Nui vocabulary has been lost except for some mixed Polynesian and non-Polynesian words recorded before the Tahitian dialect was introduced to the decimated population by missionaries in 1864.

But two decades of war had also destroyed economies, decimated populations, and created ugly divisions among the survivors.

That last fact was almost the species' undoing in the 1980s, when commercial overfishing decimated populations during the blackened redfish craze.

For if the markets and vast potential markets for the developed world's goods fail -- if decimated populations mean there is no one left economically active with money to spend -- that bell tolls for thee, globally.

President Bush has decided that the United States does need to help Africa and the Caribbean in fighting this deadly virus, which has decimated populations there.

The introduction of a European bumblebee to South America and the parasite that the bee carries may have decimated populations of that continent's indigenous "giant bumblebee," scientists reported last week in Biological Invasions.

Since then, poaching has decimated populations across the continent.

Energy development, disease and other causes have decimated populations in some areas.

In turn, the juvenile sharks have decimated populations of small bony fishes, with negative consequences for the biodiversity of the local ecosystem.