Sentence examples for devastates from inspiring English sources

One passage reads: "I did two hours of Pilates, then to Double Bay for my third meditation lesson; then to the office to read cables; to the gym... ....... Or, "travel devastates my diet...none of the official meals have serious protein content … I've got to order two main courses to come close to my protein targets.

Higher inflation devastates the value of fixed-income assets, as investors found to their cost in the 1970s.

Cheaper crude both puts extra cash in the pockets of rich-world consumers and devastates the finances of antagonists like Russia, Venezuela and Iran.

For example, a drought that devastates protozoans in a temporary pond may be inconsequential to an elephant.

The DfT declined to comment on the study, but when the new law came into force last month, Road Safety Minister Robert Goodwill said he was confident it would  "save lives", adding that driving under the influence of drugs "devastates families and  ruins lives".

But they prompted the British National Party to make a rare foray into ecology, calling the signal crayfish "the Mike Tyson of crayfish... a diseased, psychotic, evil, illegal immigrant colonist [that] totally devastates the indigenous environment".

The disease devastates affected farms because current policy dictates that after a positive test, a farm must effectively be locked down, with infected cattle carted off to be destroyed, along with, in many cases, animals who are later found to clear of the disease.

Depression at work devastates lives and wipes billions from the European economy, a report finds.

One team member in particular has displayed a real aptitude for catching those who perpetuate the illegal wildlife trade, a criminal industry that devastates vulnerable communities and habitats and is worth billions every year.

A Department of Health spokesman said: "FGM devastates lives, and we are committed to ending this abusive practice.

Gu Shan is a former Red Guard leader turned counter-revolutionary, whose execution, at the age of twenty-eight, devastates her parents and entwines their lives with those of a crippled twelve-year-old girl, the feckless nineteen-year-old son of a Communist hero, an elderly street-cleaning couple, and a radio announcer who comes to question her role in the spread of government propaganda.