Still, he showed enough for the Braves' Chipper Jones to call him a hybrid of Justin Verlander and Kerry Wood, hard-throwing right-handers with devastating off-speed pitches.
However, Jordan seized his moment to haul England to a competitive total with some devastating hitting off Dwayne Bravo in the final over as he made 27 from just nine balls.
Abbey, "devastated" of course, cantered off to an "upmarket equestrian centre", and was papped as Terry's Toni, another horse fancier, consoled her in the stables: polo may be the sport of princes, but dressage is the pastime of Wags.
Quite apart from the big John Hurt revelation, that devastating send-off was something else completely new.
The crucial factor in the current rebound is that both semiconductor and semiconductor equipment companies – in the face of collapsed stock prices, shrinking revenues and profits, and devastating lay-offs – have refused to compromise their RD investments.
I grew up in Lorain, Ohio -- a "shrinking" deindustrialized, rust-belt city near Cleveland, which faced devastating lay-offs during the late-1980's and 1990's (my dad one of those "let go") as the factories closed and manufacturing jobs moved out of town.
Oliver appeared devastated, shrugging off questions.
7. STAR RUNNERS -- The keys to two franchises are coming off devastating knee injuries.
If the reforms fail — if they kick off devastating unintended consequences or saddle the country with a maze of sclerotic regulations — then the popular backlash will be ferocious.
Exploration, however, has been blocked for more than 30 years after a devastating spill off the coast of California turned public opinion against offshore drilling.
The crusade was postponed until next spring, but a devastating storm off the coast of Sicily dissuaded Charles of Anjou and Louis's successor Philip III from any further campaigning.
