Sentence examples for destroyed power from inspiring English sources

With an almost impossible range of crises on its hands — food shortages, destroyed power plants, a quarter of the population living as refugees — the de Gaulle government had neither the time nor the capacity to create an entirely new health-care system.

Outside of rebuilding and repopulating the area, known as the Liberty Zone, the city would also like to have a federal insurance pool created for businesses that cannot afford insurance, and pay for the rebuilding of a destroyed power substation, subway station and telephone switching station at a cost of roughly $2 billion.

With an almost impossible range of crises on its hands—food shortages, destroyed power plants, a quarter of the population living as refugees the de Gaulle government had neither the time nor the capacity to create an entirely new health-care system.

Amano's visit to the plant was his first since the March 11 disaster that destroyed power and cooling systems.

The sheer weight of snow has destroyed power line and engineers have been hampered by snow-drifts and heavy winds over the weekend.

But their sabotage was carefully limited to destroying power plants and communications that, Mandela hoped, would discourage overseas investment; and linked to appeals to world opinion to impose economic sanctions on Pretoria to compel it to abandon apartheid.

The tephra would destroy power transmission lines, satellite dishes, computers and other equipment that operates on electricity.

With winds forecasted to reach 150 miles per hour by the time it hits Florida, Hurricane Irma has already killed at least 20 people, destroying power lines and buildings as it rages through the Caribbean.

This does not refer to hurricanes or tornadoes, or other storms that also cause power outages and tear down and destroy power lines.

Wagner destroyed the power of the machine and its last boss, Carmine De Sapio.

One balloon with trailing wire caused a short circuit which ultimately destroyed a power plant at Böhlen near Leipzig.