Sentence examples for devastation zone from inspiring English sources

The rescue work itself was hampered initially by the difficulty in getting personnel and supplies to the devastation zone; compounding the difficulty were periods of inclement weather that curtailed air operations.

Those stories have been told with great compassion through in articles by Martin Fackler, our Tokyo bureau chief, as well as Michael Wines and other reporters who made their way into the devastation zone.

And a report on Politico.com suggested that John McCain might give a speech "from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters".

Their humvee combat vehicles did not look out of place amid the war zone devastation.

It triggered avalanches in the Langtang valley and on Mount Everest, and devastation in the quake zone on an unimaginable scale.

As engineers widened their survey of surviving but severely damaged buildings on the rim of ground zero, they realized that they had uncovered an engineering clinic of sorts, one that might provide a rare positive note within the zone of devastation.

First responders arrived to an apocalyptic landscape: bodies burned beyond recognition (including a bus of schoolchildren who were on their way home), buildings crumbled into ash, survivors running away, relatives looking for loved ones, and a zone of devastation the size of a few football fields.

It's work that's been both heartbreaking (the devastation of the fire zone) and moving (the beauty of the rainforest).

Prime Minister Bellerive announced that from 20 January, people would be helped to relocate outside the zone of devastation, to areas where they may be able to rely on relatives or better fend for themselves; people who have been made homeless would be relocated to the makeshift camps created by residents within the city, where a more focused delivery of aid and sanitation could be achieved.

Perhaps, mused some, the EU should rebrand itself the "Environmental Union".The crash, and the devastation unleashed across the euro zone, put paid to all that.

When floods hit the Warwickshire village of Broom five years ago, resident Patrick Howell says the devastation was like a "war zone".