Sentence examples for is being devastated from inspiring English sources
We're aware that as we sit here surveying the horizon, the east coast of the US is being devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
Michelle Lerner Flanders, N.J., Dec. 11, 2007 To the Editor: The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance is being devastated by a brain drain.
But the jihadi onslaught, that reached its peak in the second half of 2014, was only one element in the crisis convulsing the de facto state (controlled by the KRG) that is being devastated by an economic catastrophe.
The Advance Market Commitment is one of several new programs by wealthy nations intended to bring better health care to the developing world, particularly Africa, which is being devastated by H.I.V. and AIDS.
"We are talking about a city exhausted by five years of war, which has received no aid since July, when the siege began – a city that is being devastated, flattened, in front of our eyes".
Downloadable here, the lyrics make a direct connection between environmental abuse and social unrest: "We have grazed animals here thousands of years...How many people are coming here to open mines and plunder our resources...Our home is being devastated..The green grasslands are turning yellow".
Palmer said: "Our lives are being devastated by the billion pound cuts to essential services that we all depend on.
This week Qiu Baixing, a deputy minister of construction, said historical architecture and cultural sites were being "devastated" by rapid urban construction.
"Beech trees are presently being attacked by beech bark disease complex, the hemlocks are being devastated by the woolley adelgid," he said.
