The consequences of this unfortunate match are devastating, far-reaching and long-lasting.
Republican leadership is hard at work on some of the most dangerous legislation and lawsuits in recent memory, and whatever they're about to unleash has the potential to devastate far more than the 28 million people covered by Obama's order.
"HIV/AIDS has been allowed to devastate far too many communities, killing 2 million Africans last year alone -- the number one killer on that continent; and in a world where civil conflict is plaguing more than 40 countries or regions, children and women have increasingly become the victims of violent death and dismemberment.
Terrible flare-ups occur, and for those caught in the middle the results are devastating — but far fewer people are caught in the middle.
"The economic consequences," he said, "would have been devastating and far-reaching" in a state where the industry has a "$2.4 billion impact".
Contrary to their narratives that promise environmental sustainability, better choices and increased profitability for farmers, and greater scientific and technological innovations in food and agriculture, the effects of such mergers are devastating and far-reaching and can be recognized in several key ways.
The gulf spill, he said, affects 100 times as many people as were affected in Alaska and has also devastated a far larger and more diverse economy.
The discovery, a few years ago, of several dozen entombed Bronze Age settlements, about 15km north-north-west of the volcano, is today showing that Vesuvius is able to devastate a far wider region than succumbed in 79AD.Nola is one of the best preserved of these sites.
To be sure, Hurricane Katrina's huge reach and a botched emergency response devastated a far greater swath of the country than did the flooding in the Midwest, and no one here is trying to make tit-for-tat disaster comparisons.
Three months later, my eyebrows and eyelashes fell out, which devastated me far more than having lost the hair on my head, probably because I could hide my head under a wig, but there was nowhere to hide a bald face.
Michael Mann: I thought there was some irony to Obama going to Oklahoma, the state that maybe has been most devastated thus far by the emerging effects of climate change, to present a vision of our energy future that really did seem to ignore climate change.
