Sentence examples for devastating legacy of the from inspiring English sources

While Peabody Energy may have hired a notorious public relations firm to hawk its international ad campaign, a village trustee and her rural farming community have exposed the devastating legacy of the world's largest coal company near its historic Illinois beginnings.

Rare enough to make "NoBody's Perfect" an exemplar of fresh-air filmmaking that addresses the devastating legacy of the drug thalidomide with acidic wit and grumpy honesty.

The chamber's recent research highlights the devastating legacy of the refugee crisis, including long-term mental health issues for adults and children who have fled their homes.

The move is part of the Liberal government's promise to carry out all 94 of the recommendations offered in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) final report on the devastating legacy of the residential school system, a church-run assimilation regime for Aboriginal children in Canada that operated from the 1870s to 1996.

On the 20th anniversary of that tragedy, my most urgent hope is that we have learned to recognize the uniquely devastating legacy of violence and are better prepared to help those threatened by the sudden tsunami of tomorrow, but also those slowly drowning in the rising tide of everyday violence today.

The legacy of the conflict is absolutely devastating.

Tensions around the issue are high in the area, which has among the country's highest rates of emigration to Mexico's northern states and to the United States because of the devastating poverty, a legacy of generations of mining going back to the Spaniards that left large swaths of barren landscape and depleted water.

Moreover, many Haitians are struggling with the legacy of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake which devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, in January 2010.

In Barbara Haskell's "The Legacy of the Armory Show: Fiasco or Transformation?" you learn that many American artists were devastated.

Profound scepticism about the use of military force is the legacy of the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003 (about which the Chilcot report is likely to be devastating) and the hopelessly ill-prepared military operations in Afghanistan.

Marrying exemplary reporting with lively, lucid writing, she makes a convincing -- nay, devastating -- case that Levin wrecked the legacy of Henry Luce, the founder of Time Inc., in the service of his ego.