Sentence examples for devastating infrastructure from inspiring English sources

As global warming melts the world's permafrost over the course of this century, up to two thirds of Russia's gargantuan landmass may become swampland, further devastating infrastructure and livelihoods.

These winds caused extensive damage, crippling communications, devastating infrastructure, and left more than 160,000 families, about 70 percent of the island's population, without power.

Some things are obvious: poverty, low life expectancy, devastated infrastructure, little economic or political stability, psychological wounds and rampant corruption.

The region faces huge challenges as officials try to restore devastated infrastructure as temperatures drop and hostilities escalate once more.

With civil instability and devastated infrastructure making training in Afghanistan impossible, the hiring of Rafiq reflected a plan to rebuild Afghan basketball by reaching out to expatriates in the United States through the Afghan Sports Federation.

Australia imposed a temporary new tax today to help fund a multi-billion-dollar rebuilding programme after floods devastated infrastructure and ruined thousands of homes and businesses across the eastern seaboard over the past month.

Boko Haram's seven-year insurgency has devastated infrastructure in Nigeria's impoverished north-east and forced around 2.1 million people in the country to flee their homes, according to UNHCR.

The natural disaster has already killed over 2,000 people in the region and devastated infrastructure.

Right now, after [Tropical Storm] Erika [which devastated infrastructure in summer 2015], it is very important in helping us to repair infrastructure.

Most pensions and social benefits have already been cut off for more than four months, leaving many elderly and poor people desperately trying to carve out existence in an area where war has devastated infrastructure and further depressed an already beleaguered economy. .

Full report [PDF] Country chapter [PDF] Republic of the Congo map [PDF] The Republic of the Congo is still suffering from the consequences of 10 years of armed conflict that have devastated infrastructure, ruined the economy and brought about massive suffering and population displacement.