Sentence examples for devastating responses from inspiring English sources

God's abrupt shifts from action to seeming indifference and back, his changing demands from the human beings standing before him, his at-times devastating responses to mankind's deeds and misdeeds — all these reflect the hardship so often present in the lives of most human beings.

The lack of a consensus on the wisdom of clarifying the American position means that the current American policy -- threatening an "absolutely overwhelming" and a "devastating" response to an unconventional attack -- is likely to continue.

The episode also maintains a common Homicide trait of combining tragedy, like the devastated response by Adena Watson's family to her murder, with scenes of dark comedy, like Jessie Doohen's claim that she endured a miserable 60-year marriage because, "We made a promise we wouldn't get a divorce until all the children were dead".

I knew they would be devastated; the responses that came back were raw and unprintable.

Still we fear that Israel's response — devastating airstrikes that represent the largest military operation in Gaza since 1967 — is unlikely to weaken the militant Palestinian group substantially or move things any closer to what all Israelis and all Palestinians need: a durable peace agreement and a two-state solution.

His admission, as well as Glory's response, are devastating, but not as devastating as they might be if we knew something more about Stephen.

Pakistan's government is unraveling in the wake of its incompetent response to devastating floods.

These floods duly came in 1995 and 1996, with devastating effect.The government's response to the disaster, though dismal by any civilised standards, was pretty good when set against the norms of unreformed communist oligarchies.

TLR activation must be tightly regulated to prevent an exaggerated immune response from devastating the host.

President Barack Obama modeled a possible response to devastating news in his words and clearly-felt emotions after the Newtown shooting.

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