Sentence examples for effects of a devastating from inspiring English sources
Utility crews restored power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in northwest Connecticut yesterday, but high winds and the lingering effects of a devastating weekend ice storm hampered the work, closed schools, littered roads with branches and left 62,000 customers without electricity for a second day.
In January, President Obama made the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act the first bill he signed into law, reversing the effects of a devastating Supreme Court decision in the fair pay case, Ledbetter v. Goodyear.
In response to this threat, groups like the Foundation for Resilient Societies have called on governments to make their power grids more EMP-proof, in order to lessen the effects of a devastating solar flare.
Golden Dawn's popularity has climbed in political polls especially among a growing number of Greeks who are increasingly angered by record joblessness, a steady flow of immigrants into the country and the less-than-successful struggle by mainstream parties to mend the effects of a devastating recession.
It said: "They know they would have to pay a very high price if they don't show themselves capable of facing the effects of a devastating economic crisis.
Even a $10 million portfolio isn't immune from the effects of a devastating illness or a long-term stay in a nursing home.
The long skirts also benefitted Kahlo in that they disguised her infirmities: her withered right leg, the result of a bout of polio she contracted at the age of six; and the effects of that devastating traffic accident, wherein her spine was broken in three places, her uterus pierced through, and her foot crushed.
After seeing the effects of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the company's CEO and founder Ian Rosenberger had an idea: What if trash could be a natural resource for Haitians?
Combined with the effects of a hailstorm that devastated his cotton crop, he says, income, roughly $2,400 in a good year, fell by more than two-thirds last year.
The 2006 and '07 Golden Phoenix events simulated the effects of devastating earthquakes in Los Angeles and Orange County; last year's operation involved a mock bioterrorism attack on San Diego that evolved into a widespread medical emergency.
