Sentence examples for immense toll from inspiring English sources

The immense toll in lives and treasure of Iraq and Afghanistan — wars the country will try to forget rather than memorialize — explains part of the inward turn.

Syrian and Russian planes have taken an immense toll on civilian infrastructure since the start of the Russian intervention, with hospitals, market places and schools regularly targeted.

Complicating these development challenges, the potential of the city is undermined by a civil war that has been under way since the early 1980s, taking an immense toll in loss of life, political polarization, and economic opportunity costs.

"Emotionally, there is no calculating the immense toll it took on my life," he recalls.

And yet, we were ignorant of the immense toll the war took on him.

Poaching has taken an immense toll on African elephants in recent decades, as demand for ivory products has soared in China.

KIGALI, RWANDA — Amid the immense human toll of the Rwandan genocide, a silent victim of the 1994 conflict is frequently overlooked: the environment.

Re "Lamentable Speech" (editorial, Oct. 7): The case involving the Westboro Baptist Church should not be viewed as a test case for the limits of "free speech"; it is fundamentally about bullying, harassment and the immense psychological toll these tactics take.

It must vex both authors that their ably written, devotedly researched volumes, so long in the making, should appear at the same time (and in the same year, for that matter, in which Günter Grass has published, overseas, a novel on the Baltic sinking of the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff, in January of 1945, by a Russian submarine, with the immense human toll of 9,343 dead).

And that doesn't even count the opportunity to reduce the immense human toll of lives lost and disrupted.

He spent the summer improving his jump shot and conditioning to handle the immense physical toll of starting in the NBA.