Sentence examples for devastation of the second from inspiring English sources
The German debt deal was a key element of recovering from the devastation of the second world war.
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.
Legal aid was originally conceived as a pillar of the welfare state alongside the NHS following the devastation of the second world war.
But the European project, launched after the devastation of the second world war, faces the most serious threat in its history.
Following the devastation of the Second World War, European nations made a commitment toward economic and political integration and cooperation in the hopes that this convergence would bring stability to the Continent.
And none of the amendments has won the hearts of Russia's elderly, who suffered the devastation of the second world war as well as persecution at the hands of the state.
The capital remained a picture of devastation on the third day after Pam, even as running water and electricity returned to some districts.
There was almost nothing else available that conveyed the personal devastation of the first world war from a young woman's point of view with such candour.
The contrast was vast between the country I'd left and the one in which I found myself — the third world, my refuge from the devastation of the first.
My favourite book of 2014 is the newly reissued facsimile of War Against War! (Spokesman Books) by Ernst Friedrich; first published in 1924, it showed the shocking pictorial truth about the injuries, massacres and devastation of the first world war.
