Sentence examples for devastating tropical from inspiring English sources

In the late 1960s, he began mathematically modeling the transmission dynamics of a parasitic worm that causes the devastating tropical disease schistosomiasis.

Hurricane Sandy is much larger, with greater surge potential, than the devastating Tropical Storm Irene last year, with winds already up to 60 miles an hour over an area more than 500 miles northeast of its center.

Devastating tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) occur periodically in some coastal regions toward the margins of the equatorial belt, such as in the West Indies and in parts of the western Pacific region.

Cleverly using his own Bond-mania to underscore the hold that 007 exerted over male Britons of a certain age, Mr. Winder recalls preparing for his first real job as a bookseller abroad: rushing to a gentlemens clothing store called Tropiccadilly, which specialized in late imperial nonsense like bewildering hats and devastating tropical weight sand-drill suits, to purchase Bond-inspired gear.

Horan was instrumental in supporting the Merck research that led to the development of a medicine to help prevent and treat the devastating tropical disease known as river blindness, and a long running partnership with the Carter Center, which has been a pioneering model for governmental and business cooperation in humanitarian efforts in developing nations.

Devastating tropical cyclones, on the other hand, are likely to remain the same or even decrease.

The report draws a comparison to successful Western-led efforts to ban the use of the industrial pesticide DDT worldwide, which has allowed a resurgent population of mosquitoes to devastate tropical countries with several virulent strains of malaria.

The hilly interior has more precipitation than the coast, which is frequently visited by devastating typhoons (tropical cyclones), particularly during late summer and early autumn.

The start of a long march by black-suited lawyers across Pakistan this week garnered a few headlines for a country that has lately slipped from the world's gaze, trumped by devastating earthquakes, tropical storms and the start of Big Brother 9.

UNICEF responds to Philippines communities devastated by Tropical Storm Washi MANILA, Philippines, 19 December 2011 – Over 600 people have been killed, and hundreds more are missing, after flash floods devastated northern and western parts of Mindanao, an island in the southern Philippines.

Malaria and schistosomiasis are two of the most socioeconomically devastating parasitic diseases in tropical and subtropical countries.