Sentence examples for inflicting devastation from inspiring English sources

Humanity is inflicting devastation on our beautiful planet, as evidenced by global climate change and mass species extinctions.

After all, it takes only a few committed radicals to inflict devastation.

Both sides have been guilty of inflicting immeasurable devastation on civilian populations.

Nuclear bombs inflict total devastation on the "cities, towns or villages" that they hit.

Crouching on the other side of the wall, the Confederates who had inflicted such devastation on the unfortunate federals listened to their enemies' piteous pleas.

In the spring of 1241 the Mongols quickly overran the country and, by the time they left it a year later, inflicted ghastly devastation.

The military power that America has left, and that enables it to inflict apocalyptic devastation from a distance, is basically the kind of power Satan granted Faust: it carries the danger of costing the country's soul.

And while North Korea would be defeated in any war, they could inflict terrible devastation on South Korea and Japan before that defeat.

* Air power: Advocates have long predicted that strategic bombing could inflict such devastation on a society that its people would overthrow their leader.

Yet, emerging pathogens often inflict incalculable devastation to humanity.

Terrorists aim not just at inflicting death and devastation.