Sentence examples for devastating invasion from inspiring English sources

National Gallery, WC2, Wed to 15 Jun SS Iraq is a country defined by the terrible legacy of dictatorship and the devastating invasion led by western powers.

The next two years he devoted to campaigns in Armenia, the manpower of which was vital to the empire, and to a devastating invasion of Persia.

Obama said during a visit to Japan in late 2009 that he would be "honoured" to go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was also bombed as part of the US plan to end the war without a devastating invasion.

Aided by Swedish officers who had been Russian prisoners at the Battle of Poltava (1709) and found their way to these distant parts, the Dzungars launched a devastating invasion of the eastern Kazakh lands.

For the Institute of Living, which guards its long tradition of discretion so rigorously that it refuses to make public the names of patients admitted nearly two centuries ago for "religious terror," "fanatical insanity," or "metaphysical hairsplitting," the judge's ruling constitutes a devastating invasion of medical privacy.

It is a devastating invasion of one's personal inner space.

Having covered Afghanistan for 25 years, the photojournalist has seen the fall of the Soviets, the rise of the Taliban, the devastating US invasion and its aftermath.

But it is equally a reaction to a long history of devastating foreign invasions.

One concerns the five journalists reporting on a country about to be devastated following invasion by Indonesian militia.

Local hospitals and clinics were left devastated by the invasion, and those suffering health problems wait longer than ever to get out of Gaza for treatment.

The invasion devastated Iraq's economy, education and healthcare and displaced a third of Iraq's population.