Sentence examples for greater devastation from inspiring English sources
"Meanwhile there are other people who cause far greater devastation … They are the corporate neoliberal elite, and their vandalism is far worse".
In a move that apparently sacrificed some areas in order to prevent greater devastation elsewhere, officials decided at the weekend to raise the river Foss flood barrier in order to prevent it from becoming stuck.
Earthquakes are an ongoing part of Chile's history, and though Viña suffered modest damage from the February 2010 quake, it is still overcoming perceptions of greater devastation, said Arturo Grez, the city's tourism director.
The play, written by Marcus Gardley and featuring songs by Todd Almond, recounts in disjointed fashion events before and after the Mississippi flood of 1927, one of the largest natural disasters in American history, with haunting similarities to the more recent (and greater) devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Although its magnitude about 6.3 was less than that of the 2010 quake, it caused greater devastation, in part because its epicentre was at a relatively shallow depth and was located close to the city and because it struck in the middle of the day.
But progress is frustratingly slow and, in some respects, unnecessarily so.The same applies even more strongly to the Indonesian province of Aceh and the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, which were poor and war-torn before the tsunami struck, and suffered greater devastation when it did.
Gaiseric caused great devastation as he moved eastward from the Strait of Gibraltar across Africa.
Carrier had taken photographs of the tribal people in the Central Highlands, where Agent Orange had caused great devastation.
In Kaduna the two biggest slums, Rigasa and Narahi, suffered the greatest devastation during the upheaval last month.
It began in London's suburb of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and the greatest devastation remained in the city's outskirts, at Stepney, Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Cripplegate, and Westminster, quarters where the poor were densely crowded.
The Napoleonic campaigns caused great devastation in Portugal, and the absence of the royal family and the presence of a foreign commander (Beresford) combined with revolutionary agitation and the influence of Spanish liberalism to produce an atmosphere of discontent.
