Taylor said meth was "devastating" country areas where only a decade ago hard drugs were rarely seen.
It offered devastated countries the vision of a supranational order intrinsically more peaceful than the nationalism which had fed Hitler's war.
Dharmasaroja's forecasts are taken seriously: in the 1990s he predicted the fearful tsunami that devastated countries around the Indian Ocean in 2004.
This creates jobs at all levels in a way similar to the rebuilding efforts after World War II that made formerly devastated countries (Japan, Germany) among the most prosperous.
He made sure food needs were met in war devastated countries.
The Committee recognizes that the pending demise of UNRRA will create a serious gap in the agricultural rehabilitation programs of a number of the more badly devastated countries.
We have inherited a devastated country.
The cost would be great, but surely less than killing large numbers of civilians and soldiers, inflaming the Arab world, ruining alliances and rebuilding a devastated country.
The Soviet war, at its conclusion, cost more than a million Afghan lives, 26,000 Soviet soldiers died and more than five million Afghans fled the devastated country.
The Japanese team, carrying the hopes of a recently devastated country, has been playing with more grit and fire, a turn for a team known more for sophistication over muscle.
