Sentence examples for for devastation from inspiring English sources

It is a city that has become a byword for devastation – in German, the verb "Koventrieren" means to devastate – and for renewal.

What they're doing here is not quite as extreme as what they were doing in the gulf, but it clearly has the same potential for devastation".

A federal appeals court reversed itself, ruling Monday that the Army Corps of Engineers is not liable for devastation caused in Hurricane Katrina from a government-built navigation canal.

Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, threatened to take down the DNS root servers in March — an effort that was unsuccessful but that prompted a multimillion-dollar global effort to beef up the DNS system, given the potential for devastation.

If the rabbit species had not been introduced into a community in which none of its natural predators were found, its potential for devastation would not be fully appreciated.

"Its potential for devastation today is far greater than at any previous time," he and 14 other smallpox experts wrote in the June 9 , 1999 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

A warming planet is already responsible for devastations all over the world.

The ban came shortly after World War II, when Italians looked for culprits for the devastation their country suffered during Fascist rule and the war.

We're in mourning, for the country, for our beautiful city, for the devastation".

For many, Easington is shorthand for the devastation wreaked by Thatcher on whole industries and communities.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has criticised authorities in some areas for not being fully prepared for the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan.