Mr Bregman dismisses the devastating past decade in a handful of pages.
The use of Native American symbols in sports teams symbolizes the devastating past of colonialism, genocide and invasion.
This is the first time the people of Derry have been able to walk freely through this place, so symbolic of the devastating past, in particular the horrors of Bloody Sunday.
In the cruel heat of the midday sun, mostly wearing shoes no stouter than flip-flops, the men marched along the ruined road for miles, past a devastated cement factory, past a thousand-tonne coal barge lifted up and set down on the highway like a bath, over a hill running past an Indonesian army post.
The past devastating earthquakes in densely populated urban centers, such as the 1994 Northridge; 1995 Kobe; 1999 series of Kocaeli, Düzce, and Athens; and 2011 Van-Erciş events, showed that substantial social and economic losses can be expected.
Though at least 2,400 people have died from the disease, according to the Associated Press, and people in Liberia have been ordered to stay at home because of the overwhelming risks, there has been a lack of global support, as compared to such past devastating crises as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Though polio was not eradicated, reported cases and outbreaks which had been devastating in the past were largely avoided.
He added, "The report highlights devastating failings of the past".
In just six weeks — an extraordinarily short time, as these things go — they put together a devastating profile of her past, filled with troubling inconsistencies, outright lies and the possibility that she hopes to profit from her alleged ordeal.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday outlined its $13.7 billion preliminary budget for 2014, cautioning that its finances remained fragile, but sounding an optimistic note given that the agency is only three years removed from deep service cuts and nine months past a devastating hurricane.
His fine record in the first two Classics of the season he credits to winters spent in the US, sharpening to a razor's point the machinery of his race instincts – a potent weapon he has used in devastating fashion in years past upon his return.
