Sentence examples for havoc upon from inspiring English sources

The tragedy wasn't this man's suicide; the tragedy was the many lives he'd wreaked havoc upon.

At least three more versions followed, seeking to wreak havoc upon Iran's uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz.

Burmese pythons are perhaps the most destructive, wreaking havoc upon deer, bobcat and raccoon populations after infiltrating the Everglades.

They have thus wreaked havoc upon the wealth and rights of the people of Pakistan in general and those of the tribal areas in particular.

It's full of potent moral ironies, in which atrocities sit alongside mundane events and Jim admires the very technology that has wreaked havoc upon his world.

Carney wound back the clock with some searing runs and constantly linked up with his Serbian teammate to wreak havoc upon the inexperienced Phoenix backline.

It is simply not reasonable to require a state to stand down while an aggressor be it state or terrorist wreaks havoc, murder and mayhem upon its people.

The captain retired last year, with 148 caps, two World Cups and the gratitude of a nation now revelling in the havoc wrought upon Australia in Sydney.

A spoof of reverent intentions, it seems; and certainly that is a large part of this glum and wacky tale about the havoc worked upon a Roman Catholic parish in the Lancashire moors by a mysterious young priest (or is he?) sent to assist its aging pastor.

Conroy is referring here to his family life, more specifically to the havoc wreaked upon it by his father, Marine Col. Donald Conroy, the growling, child-slapping, wife-beating ogre whom Conroy first pinned to the page -- "toned down" for fiction, he tells us here -- in "The Great Santini".

This annual event is held as a gesture of apology to the Aboriginal population for the havoc wreaked upon their people by colonialism: in previous years, it has been marked by people marching through the streets, or by distributing black roses.