Sentence examples for devastated by crime from inspiring English sources

Communities in Maine, Kentucky and Virginia have been devastated by crime waves involving OxyContin addicts.

Tell them to start thinking about the people devastated by Crime coming from illegal immigration.

"As a law enforcement officer, I've seen too many innocent people devastated by crime.

In the five months since he became mayor, Khan said, he had met many families devastated by knife crime.

You could sense them reeling from understanding what Byron called the "ripple effect" of lives devastated by violent crime, and the beginnings of empathy emerging.

Christian Horner, the Red Bull principal, said the team were devastated by the crime and expressed bemusement that its perpetrators should have taken items of little worth beyond their sentimental value to the company.

The programme – which mixes politics, policework and a focus on a family left devastated by violent crime – has been out-rating both BBC4's Swedish Wallander imports and the much-lauded Mad Men, which the channel lost to Sky Atlantic late last year.

The next day, Springfield has been devastated by the crime wave.

Bollywood's biggest star, Shah Rukh Khan, plays the lead, a man with Asperger's syndrome, who embarks on a journey to meet the American president, after his family is devastated by a hate crime.

Another woman wondered whether sit-ins worked better than marches in emphasizing the myriad problems faced in a nation devastated by poverty, corruption and crime.

Most of the guests are individuals whose lives have been devastated by drugs, sexual abuse, crime, and mental as well as physical illness.