Sentence examples for initially decimated from inspiring English sources

California, a pioneer in term limits, saw its statehouse leadership initially decimated, but proponents emphasize that a younger and more diverse crop of lawmakers took office there.

For the sake of consistency in the analysis of the CPU time (number of CPU cycles elapsed between the beginning and the end of an operation) required to run each step of the pipeline, we initially decimated all the plant meshes to 70000 triangles.

"Decimated houses, decimated health care, decimated schools.

Its name is German, meaning "Home on the (Santa) Ana (River)." Grapes grown for wine were initially important, but, after disease decimated the vineyards, many of them were replaced with citrus groves.

The lawsuit alleges that Facebook initially focused on kickstarting its mobile advertising platform, as the rapid adoption of smartphones decimated the desktop advertising business in 2012.

Kabila initially was able to attract foreign aid and provided some order and relief to the country's decimated economy.

The lawsuit, Reed vs. L.A. Unified, initially was brought to protect three middle schools — Gompers, Markham and Liechty — where the faculty had been decimated by layoffs affecting as many as two-thirds of teachers.

An earlier German study showed that new, brightly lit gas stations initially attracted large numbers of insects, but that the numbers fell rapidly after two years, presumably because local populations were decimated.

As Strassel notes, the Bain investment and strategy worked well initially – making $1 billion in revenue in 1996 and 1997 – but by the late 1990s cheap Asian imports, combined with the 2001 recession, decimated sales.

Many beds were decimated.

"Vinyl decimated the community".