Sentence examples for devastating mass from inspiring English sources

Even though palaeontologists remain divided on the question of whether the asteroid was the sole executioner of the dinosaurs, few doubt its contributory role in the most devastating mass extinction to have afflicted our planet in the past 65m years.

After the most devastating mass extinction swept the planet 250 million years ago, the earth witnessed a nearly unabated increase in the variety of living organisms leading to unparalleled heights of diversity -- or so paleontologists have long thought.

It is there in Vaine's office, eating ribs with the sheriff, for Vernon is suspected of being an accessory to a devastating mass murder: the gunning down of 16 high-school kids, still in their Nikes.

This, according to lawyers for the bankers, "resulted in the risk of a devastating mass exodus of key personnel and caused the Financial Services Authority to place it under close scrutiny".

Gerald Posner's "Why American Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11" goes far to prove the opposite: the C.I.A., the F.B.I., Congress, the State Department, the media, the White House, the foreign policy establishment and the general climate of public opinion all contributed to the failure to prevent the devastating mass terror attacks of 2001.

It is unclear how these early representatives of modern birds managed to survive the devastating mass extinction of the end of the Cretaceous, but these survivors diversified soon after into a myriad of forms, which today carry the legacy of the magnificent dinosaurs that ruled the earth tens of millions of years ago.

I do believe the book documents a certain moment of the destruction created by the war on drugs — the beginning of the devastating impact mass incarceration has on families living in poverty.

One of the most devastating attacks targeting Iraqi Christians happened in 2010 when jihadists stormed a church in Baghdad during Sunday mass killing 52 people.

They represent important steps to mitigate the devastating consequences of mass incarceration.

Its leading article on the EU debate - "the devastating impact that mass migration has had on this country" - hammered away at its familiar anti-migrant theme.

Power, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her study of US failures to prevent genocide, called Syria one of the "most devastating cases of mass atrocity that I have ever seen".