Sentence examples for employed to devastating effect from inspiring English sources

Using tactics usually employed to devastating effect by the South African, Oliveira had tracked Pistorius round the bend and ran him down on the straight to win by seven-hundredths of a second amid gasps from the crowd.

(This Will Destroy You's The Mighty Rio Grande is also employed to devastating effect).

One of the best scenes in Take The Ball, Pass The Ball is when Xavi uses red and white plastic cups and tortilla chips to explain how Messi was employed as a false nine to devastating effect against Real Madrid in 2009.

Conner O'Malley is a stunt-happy comedian who employs self-consciously shouty pugnacity to devastating effect.

Tim Peake's warm-up act at the International Space Station a couple of years ago was the Canadian Chris Hadfield, a singing, tweeting astronaut; the first to go to outer space and employ the new media technologies to devastating effect.

The French employed Antoine-Alphonse Chassepot's 11-millimetre Fusil d'Infanterie Modèle 1866 to devastating effect in such battles of the Franco-German War (1870 71) as Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte.

When used effectively it can prise open the inner works of government to devastating effect.

But they did so to devastating effect.

Instead, he used black humor to devastating effect.

But after leaving the pitch temporarily for a head injury assessment, Habana returned to devastating effect.

In these destruction is not at all abstract; information and form work together, to devastating effect.