Sentence examples for largely devastated from inspiring English sources

Kohima was largely devastated by the fighting but was subsequently rebuilt.

However, on March 11 , 2011 the city was largely devastated by a powerful tsunami generated by a severe earthquake in the Pacific off Sendai that overtopped those defenses and surged through low-lying areas.

A week later, Operation Goodwood renewed the British offensive, and Caen finally fell on 19 July, although by this time the city had been largely devastated.

Forget the fact that using new winners for publicity largely devastates winners' lives.

But if Peter and the Farm is any indication, it's that the prevailing sense of dread has entered even the most pastoral of regions and the effects, while smaller in scope, are largely devastating.

Coming out of an environment where the school system was largely decimated or devastated, whichever D-word you want to apply to it".

Second, he has made progress towards stopping and even reversing land grabs in the Rift Valley, including the Mau Forest area, which has been devastated largely by land-hungry Kalenjin people in cahoots with politicians connected to a previous presidency.

Even Parramatta fans – as evidenced by comments to social media and news sites – are largely behind him, devastated though they may be at the sudden loss of their best player and the hole he leaves at fullback.

Although the title "Lower Ninth" refers to one of the largely black New Orleans districts devastated by Katrina, the play's true subjects are faith, brotherhood and heroism.

Four years of it has devastated the largely agricultural economy, driving many poor people to urban centers with the usual dire social consequences.

The battle for the nearby city of Ramadi, which was also a centre of the Sunni insurgency that ravaged the country from 2004-08, took five months to win, and left the city devastated and largely uninhabitable.