Including Powell in this negotiation would add the powerful moral force of his experience, integrity, stature and good faith when he asks all parties in Washington to come together for our country at a time of devastating economic hardship, dangerous economic crisis and destructive political divisions.
Most of the negativity centered around the fact that many, many folks (truckers, etc) would clearly be devastated by the hardship this would bring were it to come to pass.
The sufferings inflicted on the kingdom by a century of intermittent warfare were exacerbated by other hardships, especially the devastating Black Death of 1347 50.
"Despite the hardships that, granted, are devastating, I don't think we've reached the point where we can say: 'Forget it, let's default,' " said Nikiforos Stavrakakis, a restaurant owner in Athens.
It's one thing for a natural disaster to hit an area with a strong economy, but in a place like Ventura, which was was already experiencing economic hardship, the repercussions may be devastating.
First are the casualties the people killed and injured, and the lives that are shattered; then comes the less dramatic but still devastating damage to surviving businesses which can pile hardship on trauma.Measuring the economic aftershocks is hard.
The hardship they have endured has been devastating". Muslims living in the Houston area pointed out local mosques had sheltered people made homeless by Harvey.
Devastating floods, inflation and mass capital flight have caused further hardship.
The result has been devastating, Mr. Arvidsson said, in a country where armed conflict and economic hardship have displaced four million people — the second-largest number of such internally displaced people after Sudan.
God's abrupt shifts from action to seeming indifference and back, his changing demands from the human beings standing before him, his at-times devastating responses to mankind's deeds and misdeeds — all these reflect the hardship so often present in the lives of most human beings.
