With a plot fueled by the certitude that something terrible will happen, this narrative may mean to recall the devastating forward motion of Russell Banks's "Continental Drift".
Mr. Hopkins is ghoulishly funny and tragic as the title character, whose political stupidity sets in motion a devastating chain reaction of killing, torture and retaliation.
Without going into detail, I can say that it has been devastating... a slow-motion train wreck with no end in sight.
In this context, global climate change can be seen as nuclear war "in slow motion"—potentially globally devastating with enormous consequences for human health and deserving of the attention and action of the public health and health care communities.
That argument is indeed devastating to the parity of all relative motions but we have seen that it is highly questionable whether Leibniz's equivalence of hypotheses amounts to such a view.
The spillway, built in 1954, is part of a flood plan largely put into motion in the 1930s in the aftermath of the devastating 1927 flood that killed hundreds.
Ronald S. Languedoc, a tenant lawyer and the board member who forwarded the motion proposing a rent freeze, said the recession had been "devastating" for rent-stabilized tenants.
She has outright said she would not support a motion to proceed for the repeal-only bill, saying it would be devastating for her Alaska constituents, and she has raised concerns about the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
However, it has been globally manifested for numerous cases of devastating earthquakes that the generic provisions provided by effective seismic codes are grossly misleading, with the observed strong ground motion parameters and coseismic effects being far higher than predicted [50].
