Sentence examples for greatest devastation from inspiring English sources

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.

While the disaster affected countries from Malaysia to Somalia, the greatest devastation appears to have occurred in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where more than 45,000 deaths have been reported.

That's easy: Climate change's greatest devastation won't begin for decades.

But the greatest devastation of families is occurring in red states, where conservatives control politics and schools and progressives have scant influence.

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.

"Meanwhile there are other people who cause far greater devastation … They are the corporate neoliberal elite, and their vandalism is far worse".

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 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.

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.