Sentence examples for devastation remained from inspiring English sources

The war was over, but the devastation remained.

It began in London's suburb of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and the greatest devastation remained in the city's outskirts, at Stepney, Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Cripplegate, and Westminster, quarters where the poor were densely crowded.

She also claimed that slavery had changed over the previous 200 years, but that its devastation remained the same, and that some trafficked sexual slaves are as young as 12 years old.

While the memories of the victims and the devastation remain painful, they're layered with the images of what this country became in the days, weeks and months following the attacks of that Tuesday in September.

Despite the devastation, many remained thankful the river had spared them the worst of its fury.

An analysis of the estimated daily doses of medication revealed that the residential devastation effect remained significant after controlling for the extent and frequency of personal exposure to earthquake damage (P = 0.013, by ANCOVA).

But the devastation remains.

The real French Quarter may still be shaking off the effects of Hurricane Katrina and struggling to lure tourists back, but the Disney World version has managed to avoid the devastation and has remained open for business since the hurricane struck four months ago.

In an open letter to Tom Clausen, the bank's president, he told him to "stop financing the destruction of the tropical world, the devastation of its remaining forests, the extermination of its wildlife, and the impoverishment and starvation of its human inhabitants".

Even with the devastation, airport officials remain optimistic.

When the Rev. Richard Porta, a Universal Life minister, asked, "Who gives this woman in marriage?" the bride's father wisecracked, "Do I have to?" As guests had driven past the remaining devastation — houses standing broken in half, others reduced to rubble — they talked about how the wedding was an affirmation of hope.