Sentence examples for devastating building from inspiring English sources

A group of 70 international retailers has agreed a programme of safety inspections at garment factories in Bangladesh in the wake of a devastating building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people in April.

Scandal has seen a number of executives detained Government to implement tighter control of bonuses in response to Parliamentary Commission's landmark report Move comes after devastating building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people in April Energy giant SSE pocketed a 28 per cent profits boost as UK households turned up their heating to keep out the bitter winter weather.

In less than 24 hours, a month's worth of rain poured down, and continued for days, devastating buildings, food reserves, houses, roads, schools, health facilities and bridges.

Muzaffarabad was devastated; buildings and markets collapsed, and thousands of residents were killed.

If one occurred in the zone close to Memphis, it would be devastating because buildings are not made to withstand earthquakes.

A locomotive's spark ignited the wooden Green Island drawbridge that existed at the time, and when that could not be contained to the bridge it spread to the east, ultimately devastating 507 buildings over a 16-block area.

(They miraculously survived a 2006 fire that devastated the building).

The deal will devastate the building trade unions, also part of the AFL-CIO, who have been the hardest hit by NAFTA-style trade agreements.

You could have a No. 4 (magnitude) earthquake in California and not damage anything, but the same type in New York could be devastating because the building codes don't factor in earthquakes".

Shortly after the state acquired the properties, a fire devastated both buildings.

Lethal cannon fire from the aircraft devastated several buildings in the mud-brick village of Azizabad, leaving more civilians dead than Taliban.