Sentence examples for devastating land from inspiring English sources

The latest chapter of the Koch brothers disdain for public service and safety confirms much of what we've learned through our Koch Brothers Exposed campaign, which has linked the billionaire right-wing brothers to disastrous oil spills, devastating land grabs and attacks on Social Security and public education.

Revolutionary war was an effective way to deflect attention from domestic problems, including a devastating land reform campaign, a dissident intellectual movement and an unsuccessful state plan for socialist transformation of the economy.

This seemingly insurmountable saga wisely focuses on the true stories of three real-life soldiers as it re-creates several devastating land battles across the Pacific Theater from 1941-45.

This seemingly insurmountable World War II saga about three real-life soldiers who fought in devastating land battles across the Pacific Theater from 1941-45 wasoso emotionally impactful that viewers could feel the loss of each and every Marine who died in them.

For those who make their living on the water, the sewage discharge has been devastating, landing squarely on one of the hottest weeks of the summer, in the middle of peak business season.

When some crusaders advocated ravaging the countryside, others objected by asking, "Is not the land we are devastating our land, and the people we are fighting our people?" The Saxon army under Henry the Lion withdrew after the pagan chief, Niklot, agreed to have Dobin's garrison undergo baptism.

They won't solve the problem, but their part in "devastating" an already devastated land is overstated.

This system is also devastating the land and the sea.

In August and September 1079 King Malcolm of Scots raided south of the River Tweed, devastating the land between the River Tees and the Tweed in a raid that lasted almost a month.

Skanderbeg's expedition succeeded in lifting the Siege of Barletta, capturing Trani through a ruse, forcing the Angevins to turn from an offensive to a defensive strategy, and devastating the land to the point where its inhabitants and Giovanni Orsini were forced to submit to Ferdinand, even allowing Ferdinand to safely attend the wedding of Antonio Piccolomini, Pius II's nephew.

The disaster's devastating blows landed on an economy about one-tenth the size of New Mexico's that was already feeble and struggling before the quake.