Sentence examples for devastating rate from inspiring English sources

Members of the tiny, isolated tribe had given DNA samples to university researchers starting in 1990, in the hope that they might provide genetic clues to the tribe's devastating rate of diabetes.

The devastating rate of homelessness among New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth continues to rise each year -- a fact brought home even more poignantly during the brisk holiday season.

In this week's issue of Huffington, we take you to a town in New York where toxins in the school's athletic fields may be linked to a devastating rate of cancer among young people--and residents say a "fill-for-fields" dumping agreement the school reached with a construction company could be to blame.

In areas of rural China that lack refrigeration, extremely high levels of salts in preserved meats, fish and vegetables that form toxic compounds have created devastating rates of digestive system cancers.

Highly chloroquine-resistant parasites spread from Asia in the 1960s and led to devastating rates of malaria-related death in Africa starting in the late 1980s, gradually forcing affected countries to replace chloroquine with sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) (3 – 5 ).

Everyone is struggling to turn things around in Afghanistan where tens of thousands of American soldiers are putting their lives on the line every day to stop al Qaeda from terrorizing ours and to bring down the devastating unemployment rate here at home.

My last votes capped off a chapter of a storybook life I couldn't have dreamed up: the fiscal compromise approved by the House, with the support of nearly all Democrats and a minority of Republicans, staved off what would have been devastating tax-rate increases for nearly all but the wealthiest American households.

Families here aren't climbing apple trees and catching fireflies in a mason jar; they are battling an outrageously high child mortality rate, devastating unemployment and preventable diseases.

And alcohol helps raise the country's towering rape, and still devastating HIV-infection, rates; drunks tend to forget about condoms.

"Devastatingly good," said Betsey, a devastating critic of second-rate risotto, mine and most of Manhattan's included.

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