Sentence examples for devastating acts from inspiring English sources

But coming behind them might lie other groups with agendas of nationalism or religious extremism that might plot to replace old-fashioned bombs with devastating acts of internet sabotage.

The report notes that, in addition to such globally devastating acts as the decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, Trump has exemplified the rise of "charismatic strongman politics," which has contributed to a "febrile" geopolitical environment.

Past Summits have looked at the future of energy, education, and global business -- but during a time marred by devastating acts of terror, including the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria and wars that have forced thousands to flee their homelands, the 2016 Summit on Human Rights was particularly timely.

Earlier this month the head of the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) voiced alarm over "one of the most devastating acts of destruction of library collections in human history".

It must be difficult for President Vladimir V. Putin to take seriously any critique by the Bush administration of his increasingly tight grip on Russia's government in response to devastating acts of terrorism, when taking into consideration the unprecedented power granted to the United States government through the Patriot Act.

Sometimes, Beast becomes concrete through deliberate, devastating acts of violence.

(By the devastating second act, I was beyond tears).

"The trade center is like a great character out of a classical tragedy," said Ric Burns, whose new documentary, "The Center of the World," looks at the events of 9/11 as the devastating last act of a decades-long drama.

But come Chekhov's devastating fourth act (this production is played, as is customary, in two halves), the cast seems to snap into the surpassing dislocation and loss laid bare by a play in which the sisters are revealed to have only one another.

But Mr. O'Neill's chops come in handy during the play's devastating second act during which the actor's voice on occasion swoops as high as the music he so loves, the lyrics from Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey" cunningly deployed in counterpoint to the ruinous liaison on view before us.

Kim Schroeder, president of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Associationn, said that as devastating as Act 10 was, it forced the union to rethink the way it functions.