Sentence examples for extraordinary devastation from inspiring English sources

All week, players on the Giants — many of them without electricity at home either — spoke about the added responsibility they felt with this game, considering the extraordinary devastation.

A month later, the extraordinary devastation of a 16-acre tract in Lower Manhattan has become almost an accepted condition by a city turning its attention to war.

He spoke of the extraordinary devastation and the silhouettes of objects and even people that were burnt into the pavements in the molten heat of the atomic flash.

The commander of the first American ship to reach earthquake-stricken Port-au-Prince Port-au-Princebed Port-au-Prince, Haitiary describedon, with collapsceneuildings reaching frof thextraordinaryhe hills above.

"I have traveled a long distance to let the court know firsthand the extraordinary devastation my family experienced," said Michael Lowe, whose daughter Sarah was a flight attendant on the first plane that struck the World Trade Center.

Commander Durham described extraordinary devastation, with collapsed buildings reaching from the port into the hills above, and said that Haitian officials had told her that half of the 80 Haitian coast guard staff members stationed at the port were killed in the earthquake.

But once the storms passed and the extraordinary level of devastation became clear, Ms. Quiles Deyá, 32, decided to quit the law and participate in regrowing the island — from the ground up.

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director, Ann M. Veneman on her visit to quake-ravaged Pakistan MUZZAFARABAD, Sunday 30th October, 2005 - Ladies and Gentlemen, today I witnessed the extraordinary scale of devastation and the breadth of human suffering during this short visit to the heart of the earthquake zone.

"The scale of the devastation is extraordinary... and the losses are heartbreaking," he said at the White House.

The scale of the devastation was "extraordinary", he said, not only because of the cyclone and flooding but because the land had already had been saturated by earlier rains.

fb333303-ad77-49a2-b6da-3fead550a58c As Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard extraordinary scenes of the devastation were broadcast around the world.