"devastation of human lives" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means the destruction or ruin of human lives. Example: The war resulted in the devastation of human lives, leaving behind a trail of grief and loss that would take years to heal.
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.
The growing number of low-probability events that could lead to the total devastation of human society.
But on the inside of the operation, with so much power at stake, the pragmatic necessities of empire, a.k.a., our national interests -- control of oil, dominance in the Middle East, the well-being of defense contractors -- morph into patriotic values, and seem, all of a sudden, worth the cost in human lives, environmental devastation and even the well-being of future generations.
We have only to look at the Gulf Coast oil disaster to recognize the potential devastation such an attitude can have for human lives, as well as the lives of plants and animals.
Meanwhile, the death toll in eastern Ukraine continues to rise; UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, recently described the conflict as a "merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure".
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said it painted a picture of "merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure".
Human lives have now become an accepted part of the external cost, and if Americans knew the extent of the real suffering and devastation in our coalfield areas, I think we would move quickly to launch a just transition to other forms of clean energy.
This consequence was demonstrated long ago by the early devastation of native American human populations caused by pathogens inadvertently introduced by European explorers.
