Sentence examples for enormous devastation from inspiring English sources

I feel that Yeltsin permitted an enormous devastation of Russia.

Given the enormous devastation, this was a remarkably small number.

Striking on May 12 , 2008 the quake brought enormous devastation to the mountainous central region of Sichuan province in southwestern China.

On May 12 , 2008 a magnitude-7.9 earthquake brought enormous devastation to the mountainous central region of Sichuan province in southwestern China.

While the nation hangs on stories of remarkable rescues by the more than 140,000 relief and medical workers involved in the effort, the grim realities of the enormous devastation that has destroyed this region are settling in.

Despite having suffered enormous devastation during World War II, Japan enjoyed an economic miracle in the second half of the 20th century, during which time the yen became one of the leading international currencies, challenging the pound sterling and the dollar on international markets.

Most of these cases occurred in persons 40 59 years of age and thus have the potential for enormous social devastation (Lee et al, 2003).

But it was to take four years of grim, unrelenting warfare and enormous casualties and devastation before the Confederates could be defeated and the Union preserved.

"The immediate concern is for a very high death toll but also an enormous amount of destruction and devastation," Sune Gudnitz, regional director for the UN's Office for the Co-ordination for Humanitarian Assistance (UNOCHA), told Reuters news agency from nearby Fiji, which is also expecting to be hit by Pam.

The devastation is enormous".

The enormous explosions left such devastation that villagers struggled to describe it.