Sentence examples for devastating cycle from inspiring English sources

The review of investment strategy in the oil, gas and mining sectors grew out of a fierce debate over whether the development of those industries could consistently help countries alleviate chronic poverty, or would instead fuel a devastating cycle of corruption and conflict.

In February 2011, after the revolution in Tunisia and as opposition was brewing in Egypt against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, she criticised Arab leaders in a UN report for failing to provide jobs and education for youth, warning of a "devastating cycle of unemployment".

Devastating cycle of drought Adding to the difficulties facing Borena's children, some 550,000 people are now affected by the drought here.

For without a concerted global response to the problem of dirty money, the world's money-laundering machine will be off on yet another devastating cycle.

An Entertainment, from 1990, remains piercingly new with its violently abrupt clips of Mr Punch magnified on four vast screens that enclose the viewer in a devastating cycle of assault and battery, with Punch's demonic repetitions "Nasty baby!

A new innovative app hopes to disrupt that devastating cycle.

This disjunction has been in tension since British colonialists tried to codify Nuer customary law in the region (Johnson 1986), and its implications for insecurity in rural areas are profound, since applications of statutory law without corresponding customary measures may fail to resolve the resentments that fuel devastating cycles of revenge raids if left unmediated.

Mostly, La Roja has endured great expectations and devastating letdowns, a cycle that could finally be broken as another World Cup approaches.

There were boom and bust economic cycles, devastating epidemics and natural disasters that came without warning.

"This wall is drying up our basins, it is devastating the water cycles that have sustained our valleys for centuries, it is sowing death in our territories and it must be torn down now," it adds.

House of Cards star Robin Wright has launched a campaign with Congolese and American activists to end the pillage of Congo's vast mineral resources and break the cycle of devastating wars that have claimed more than five million lives.