Sentence examples for devastation of human from inspiring English sources

If anything, Malawi is a backward province in the Aids catastrophe, yet the death toll, the devastation of human lives, is awesome.

INSIDE JOBS Jeffrey Toobin's piece on the inmates and staff at the Baltimore City Detention Center illustrates the devastation of human lives and communities which decades of drug prohibition have wrought ("This Is My Jail," April 14th).

There is no room for complacency on this issue, or dismissal because the problem is not considered to be on a significant scale – it involves servitude, and therefore the devastation of human lives.

What kind of hate motivates this level of destruction and devastation of human life?

The growing number of low-probability events that could lead to the total devastation of human society.

A generation of physicians has warned that nuclear weapons result in such enormous and long-lasting devastation for human populations that they cannot be used in warfare.

This consequence was demonstrated long ago by the early devastation of native American human populations caused by pathogens inadvertently introduced by European explorers.

That novel dealt with the environmental devastation wrought by decades of human interference on the islands; "San Miguel" re-examines this history from the perspectives of three women.

"Today I witnessed the extraordinary scale of the devastation and the breadth of human suffering during this short visit to the heart of the earthquake zone," she said.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman on her visit to quake-ravaged Pakistan MUZZAFARABAD, Sunday 30th October, 2005 - Ladies and Gentlemen, today I witnessed the extraordinary scale of devastation and the breadth of human suffering during this short visit to the heart of the earthquake zone.

As we passed Kuwait City, the images of devastation and human carnage were horrifying.