Sentence examples for degrees of devastation from inspiring English sources

The US's interests, Israel and oil, were thus preserved, and the major pan-Arab revolution(s) of 2011 turned into a series of civil conflicts with varying degrees of devastation.

Recovering from this degree of devastation will take decades, and even then the reef will be only a shadow of its prebleaching self.

Similarly, natural causes can readily be found to explain the difference between the greater degree of devastation suffered in Haiti than in Chile: the proximity of the Haitian quake epicenter to heavily populated Port-au-Prince as compared to the more rural epicenter in Chile, poorer building construction codes in Haiti than in Chile, and so forth.

Some on the Israeli side agreed that the country's third war with Hamas in six years had yielded little in the way of strategic advantage, especially when weighed against the degree of devastation.

What you don't see is the 360 degree view of devastation.

Catastrophe is not always preventable, but the degree of destruction and devastation can be mitigated, and as the leaders of Pune, and other cities, are recognizing, building resilience is also a key economic development strategy.

In some of these photographs of refugees in Serbia, Greece and other countries, you sense a degree of psychic devastation that you don't in his American pictures.

City covered in mud As we approached Gonaïves we were amazed by the degree of the devastation.

It's a year I've known a distinct degree of heartbreak and devastation, and paramount in that journey has been the unique turmoil of ending friendships.

Witnesses described scenes of devastation.

Unhappily, it brought the seeds of devastation.