Sentence examples for economically devastated from inspiring English sources

He has spoken affectingly about growing up in straitened circumstances in and around economically devastated Flint, Mich.

Mr. Zhang, the duck farmer who was among the first to call, said many farmers had been economically devastated by the river pollution that peaked in fall.

It was a single-industry place and I thought it was so sad that it was going to be economically devastated, just like that.

Many tribes in the United States were economically devastated by the Pick-Sloan plan, a post-World War II federal development program that placed major dams on the Missouri River and numerous smaller dams on its tributaries.

Many families and women affected by this policy relied on their backyard poultry as their only disposable source of income and have been economically devastated as a consequence.

Istanbul's decision to let the Turkish lira float means the country will be economically devastated in the coming months by rampant inflation and appalling rates of interest.

A sharp reduction in Israeli work permits would be economically devastating for the Palestinians.

What you hear from conservative opponents of a climate-change policy, however, is that any attempt to limit emissions would be economically devastating.

The shocking numbers cited in "Median Income Drops Are Tied to Immigrants" (news article, Dec. 22) should convince anyone that mass immigration is economically devastating for average Americans.

Beginning in 1985, multiple surges in toxic marine algae known as brown tide have decimated Peconic Bay's scallop population, resulting in years of dismal, economically devastating harvests.

Asked yesterday about leaving the whole site vacant, Nikki Stern, who lost her husband, James E. Potorti, said, "Anything that economically devastates New York would not be a good legacy in terms of remembering our loved ones".