Sentence examples for devastated land from inspiring English sources

They won't solve the problem, but their part in "devastating" an already devastated land is overstated.

Meanwhile, ordinary people lived in poverty on devastated land with little hope of relief in the near future.

The villages Macintyre returned to had been rebuilt atop "devastated land, poisoned by the excreta of battle".

But when Iraqi-born engineer Azzam Alwash returned in 2003 after 25 years away, he found a devastated land.

But in all of Kiarostami's films, there's also a voluptuous, contemplative aesthetic joy, and that's so even when he films among orphaned children in a devastated land.

There's a new national security adviser in the White House, and a final chance for American initiative in this devastated land.

No oil spills, dead coal miners, dirty air, devastated lands, lost wildlife.

As for the first "fallen" nations (Greece, Ireland and Portugal), they shall become little Latvias, or indeed Kosovos: devastated lands (after the loss of between 25% and 40% of national income, a massive exodus of their skilled labour) on which our people will holiday and buy cheap real estate.

Before urban development, the partially devastated lands caused by overgrazing during the Spanish period was still potentially capable of rebounding to their natural state.

The government has spent billions of dollars and the people of Japan have spent countless hours restoring their devastated lands to what it once was.

That's not as catchy as setting up emergency feeding clinics in a famine-devastated land, but it's far cheaper to avert the crisis than to wait for it.