Sentence examples for devastation in the first from inspiring English sources

And that means addressing some of the underlying problems that led to this turmoil and devastation in the first place.

"We recognized that an intervention had to occur because what happened in Orlando is not separate from the systemic and structural issues that create homophobic and transphobic narratives that allow for that type of devastation to happen in the first place," Khan said.

The devastation of Reims cathedral in the first world war is illustrated in Pierre Antony-Thouret's handsome series of images captured months after the conflict's end.

Annihilation, destruction, devastation – and that was just in the first half.

It was a time of devastation in northern Mali: first the rebels pillaged the town, then the jihadis imposed a brutal form of sharia law on the population.

The same assimilationist forces that were reshaping American Jews had been unleashed in Poland as well, but after the devastations of the First World War — and in the face of the virulent anti-Semitism that took on new intensity with Polish independence — neither assimilation nor a return to former piety was possible.

To millions of Londoners caught up in the devastation of the Second World War, the prospect of a new life in Stevenage probably seemed like a nice idea.

prudence would not risk setting the Muslim world aflame by carving up a second theater of devastation in the Middle East.

Haiti In the mountain town of Kenscoff, away from the devastation left by the January 2010 earthquake, twenty young Haitian girls and boys participated in the first OneMinutesJr.

Out of the devastation of the Second World War grew an awareness of the need to guard against any such catastrophe recurring in Europe.

First of all, why did you think there was such devastation in the banking sector that was unprecedented?