Sentence examples for inflicted enormous damage from inspiring English sources

Faced with no-fly zones across much of his territory, Saddam inflicted enormous damage on Shia communities in the south but remained hemmed in.

The coastal column shelled the Israeli positions and inflicted enormous damage; the Israelis were either dug in in shallow trenches made for infantry warfare with no head cover, or in Samakh's clay houses that were vulnerable to heavy weapons.

The flaws in the system became apparent when many bonds with the highest ratings ended up plunging in value, inflicting enormous damage on the economy.

McCrea's greatest danger, however, comes from another source, who, although he has no chance of winning, can inflict enormous damage on him.

The tobacco industry has admitted that the tactic, being pioneered in Britain but likely to be followed elsewhere, will slash profits and inflict enormous damage on cigarette manufacturers.

Heavy, concentrated air strikes (as many as 340 a day) continued, with one temporary halt (Oct . 24 Dec. 18, until Dec. 30, 1972, inflicting enormous damage.

As the 1908 Tunguska event, which leveled trees across an area of Siberia some 30 km in diameter demonstrated, even relatively small objects 30-500 m diameter) are capable of inflicting enormous damage.

So the choice is: do we risk inflicting enormous damage to us at a time when we are riding high or do we accept that there will have to be a bit of a loss of face".

At the time it looked like an intelligent move, but it soon became clear that he had handed his rival a weapon with which he would inflict enormous damage on the Mirror.

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Monday morning, August 29, it cut a wide swath of destruction in the area; but despite inflicting enormous damage, it initially appeared that the storm had spared low-lying New Orleans the worst of its wrath.

Even George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, speaking on the vulnerabilities of the nation's computer networks at a technology security conference on Dec. 1, noted the ability of terrorists to "work anonymously and remotely to inflict enormous damage at little cost or risk to themselves".