Sentence examples for devastating string from inspiring English sources

PAGE A22 HELP FOR CUBA AND HAITI The devastating string of hurricanes that rushed through the Caribbean in the last month has left a scale of devastation that calls for an extraordinary assistance effort.

The district attorney's office in New York catalogued a devastating string of lies: on her application for asylum, on her tax return, to the housing authorities, to a grand jury and, repeatedly, to the prosecutors, including over what happened in the hotel after the alleged assault on May 14th.

On March 5 of that year, a day after he became president, Roosevelt responded to the devastating string of bank failures by declaring a bank holiday that closed all banks and halted all financial transactions, allowing the start of the arduous process of restoring public confidence in the system.

At least 247 people died and dozens more were injured, or feared still trapped in debris, after a powerful pre-dawn earthquake devastated a string of remote hilltop towns and villages across a swath of central Italy on Wednesday.

In fact, the entire mood surrounding the episode was somber -- I kept noticing how completely devastated and strung out all the girls were, despite the looming mixed bag of prizes.

Last year, there was a string of devastating hurricanes in Florida.

At that time, Shorja had suffered a recent string of devastating bombings that had killed merchants and shoppers.

After a string of devastating rulings by a federal district court in the government's landmark antitrust lawsuit, the Microsoft Corporation struck back.

It has been accepted by Defra, adopted by the Environment Agency and acted upon by the local authorities; UK flood management is changing – unfortunately, the string of devastating floods, including the current disaster in Somerset, suggests that it isn't changing fast enough.

A string of devastating one-liners from Diane offer biting commentary on institutional misogyny.

The past several years have seen a string of devastating events around the globe including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the 2004 South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and the 2010 Pakistan floods.