Sentence examples for general devastation from inspiring English sources

"I wanted to stay away from the traditional stories of poverty, disease, and general devastation that occurs when a country has been in a near-constant state of war for decades," he told me.

She hadn't realized how hot, because earlier, when she left for the restaurant, she had just bathed and splashed herself with cologne, and later, when she returned, the heat was only a part of the general devastation.

"These improvements in the face of the general devastation look small and insignificant because the devastation is so much bigger," said Haidar Minathar, an Iraqi author, actor and director.

Capitol Hill conversations about Yemen that used to focus primarily on the impact of U.S.-supported airstrikes now broadly cover the general devastation of the nation, which is also facing an unprecedented outbreak of cholera, according to Kate Gould of the anti-war advocacy group Friends Committee on National Legislation.

That day, the streets remained calm, even friendly, in the midst of horrible devastation and general government absence.

The Marathi term "khel-khandoba", which is taken to mean "devastation" in general usage, refers to the possession of devotee by the god in his cult.

He told Kirby-Smith that further resistance was futile and urged the general to avoid needless bloodshed, devastation, and misery by accepting the surrender terms.

As the country struggled to absorb the devastation, three days before general elections, Prime Minister José María Aznar said, "March 11 now has its place in the history of infamy".

The devastation extends worldwide.

But ICBL coordinator Liz Bernstein says the general trend is toward a lessening of the scale of devastation, thanks to the Mine Ban Treaty and other ban movements.

As it spread relentlessly over Western Europe and, a few decades later throughout North America, the disease caught the attention of both the general public and the plant pathology research community because of the devastation it brought to native elm populations.