Sentence examples for devastating communities from inspiring English sources

Cuts, debt and climate change are devastating communities causing poverty and inequality, down the road in Tower Hamlets, across Britain and internationally.

"BP continues to rush headlong into the tar sands, which is devastating communities, cultures, [and] ecosystems," said Suzanne Dhaliwal, director of the UK Tar Sands Network.

Two nights later, Tottenham in North London was alight and riots started to spread across the country, costing millions of pounds in damages, devastating communities and swamping the criminal justice system.

Unlike Robin Hood Gardens, which is to be knocked down imminently, English Heritage awarded Byker a Grade II listing in 2007, defending it from the swathe of council-estate demolitions currently devastating communities across Britain – particularly in London, where more than a dozen estates, housing tens of thousands of people on low incomes, are being demolished.

"The Senate Republicans are just a little too vulnerable to be so cavalier about a drug policy that is devastating communities of color," said Michael Blain, the public policy director for the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit group focused on reforming the nation's drug laws.

So what's the reality - are the cuts to local government devastating communities or is life for most people carrying on much as normal?

During the last century, devastating community-level exposures to mercury-contaminated grain in Iraq and seafood in Japan established the sensitivity of the fetus to mercury's toxic effects (Myers and Davidson 2000).

Poverty cannot continue to devastate communities.

AIDS continues to devastate communities in New York and in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

The moves have devastated communities from Georgia to New Jersey and from Michigan to Oklahoma.

The most severe outbreak on record was the Ebola outbreak of 2014, which devastated communities in western Africa, however.