Sentence examples for devastating rupture from inspiring English sources

The decision was ushered in under the guise of also providing "a thriving, economic lifeline for the local community", neatly overlooking the devastating rupture to personal and family life which is caused by the prison industrial complex.

In addition to the climate change risks of tar sands oil production, additional local impacts - with or without with a spill or rupture - would be devastating.

Of course, the foreclosure crisis is more than numbers--it's broken dreams, devastated families, and ruptured communities.

Seismic activities around such structures should be monitored to evaluate their seismic potential and to develop rupture propagation scenarios for future devastating earthquakes.

Brainstem AVM have a higher risk of hemorrhage compared to AVM in other locations, and rupture of these lesions commonly results in devastating neurological morbidity and mortality.

Inflammation is a major driving factor of atherosclerosis progression [ 17] and a major determinant of plaque rupture [ 18], the results of which may be devastating.

Since 1939, a sequence of devastating earthquakes of surface-wave magnitude greater than seven (M s  > 7) have ruptured progressively westward along the NAF, starting with the 1939 Erzincan earthquake (M s  = 7.9) in eastern Turkey and culminating in the 1999 Izmit Golcuk (M s  = 7.7) and Duzce (M s  = 7.4) earthquakes in the eastern Marmara region.

In general, the outcome after treatment of a re-rupture is poor, but results following treatment of a deep infection are devastating [ 6].

While the segment boundary limits the rupture area of an individual earthquake, sometimes a great earthquake across a segment boundary occurs, causing strong shaking and devastating tsunamis, e.g., Nankai (Ando, 1975), Cascadia (Satake et al., 1996), Chile (Campos et al., 2002), Kuril (Sawai et al., 2004), Sumatra (Lay et al., 2005), and Japan Trench (Ide et al., 2011).

Quietly devastating.

Devastating, even.