Sentence examples for devastating strikes from inspiring English sources
"devastating strikes" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a powerful or destructive attack or series of attacks. Example: The country was left in ruins after a series of devastating strikes by enemy forces.
By comparison, Mr. Obama's biggest accomplishments have been largely defensive: a full withdrawal from Iraq and devastating strikes against the core leadership of Al Qaeda.
IN 1969, in the midst of devastating strikes, rising racial conflict, sinking finances, terrifying crime rates and an expanding, dysfunctional city bureaucracy, the pugilistic writer Norman Mailer made a quixotic bid for mayor of New York.
After the opposition's failed coup attempt against President Hugo Chávez and its four economically devastating strikes, the old dinosaurs of the two political parties that plundered the country for decades and are now in opposition have lost their influence.
Poets as well as workers' leaders emerged out of the nascent trade union movement in the late 1940s, which held devastating strikes and helped shake the foundations of British rule.
But the great fear of the government is a repetition of the devastating strikes over pension reform in 1995, which so damaged the government of Prime Minister Alain Juppe that it lost a general election two years later.
If these weekday murders are the acts of a homicidal maniac and not part of a terrorist conspiracy, then surely the plotters of last year's devastating strikes at the Pentagon and New York's twin towers are saying: What a perfect follow-up, cheap and simple and maddening.
How can we reduce the targets of terrorism, getting rid of concentrations of people of a particular type to reduce the likelihood of a devastating strike?
In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair recalled Parliament from its recess a month early, saying the voices of democracy must speak out after devastating terror strikes in the United States.
The group unleashed a bombing campaign in Maiduguri, Jos, Kaduna and the capital, and devastating coordinated strikes against the security services in Kano.
Mr. Pollack reviews all the options, from doing essentially nothing to a military effort relying on anti-Hussein Iraqi resistance forces supported by devastating air strikes, somewhat like what was done with the Northern Alliance and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Any prospect of a settlement has been welcomed with weary enthusiasm by an entertainment industry that has snarled itself in knots for more than six months over the prospect of potentially devastating dual strikes this summer by writers and actors.
