Sentence examples for devastation state from inspiring English sources

(Our colleagues at The Lede blog are also following Sandy's devastation state by state).

For years now, the police, governments and secret services have spied on, infiltrated and tried to discredit or criminalise those fighting economic injustice, racism, environmental devastation and state surveillance.

As the water has drained from the mountains to the plains, it has left a trail of devastation that state officials say will take years to wipe away and that one estimate has put at $2 billion.

Bingo.Gasp The converse of this observation is that Democratic politicians, increasingly dependent on money and votes from SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, and so forth, fear they will reap the electoral whirlwind if they stand up to the unions even when union-negotiated benefits packages threaten to wreak fiscal devastation upon state and municipal budgets.

A number of judges have begun to respond to the devastation in state education financing: in May, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered Gov. Chris Christie and the Legislature to reinstate $500 million in funds for poor urban districts, and last month, a North Carolina judge blocked cuts that would have decimated financing for a statewide preschool program.

The scandal brought devastation in State College that will take years to fully assess, as Sandusky's victims are pressing civil claims and a January trial is pending for Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, two university administrators charged with failing to properly report suspicions about Sandusky and lying to the grand jury that investigated him.

Widespread devastation in that state along with some closed Hudson River crossings complicated their travel.

Half-destroyed, the palace became a monument to the quake's devastation and the state's weakness.

Like most Michiganders, we worry about the devastation to our state if the Big Three go belly up.

The devastation is the state's deadliest wildfire on record, exceeding the 1933 Griffith Park Fire that killed 29.

For years fans, players, coaches, pundits, broadcasters, scribes and administrators have bemoaned the devastation wreaked by State Of Origin on the premiership proper.