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Rushing away from the coastline, even before a tsunami alarm sounds, is an understandable legacy of the devastating quake-triggered tsunami that struck the same area on 26 December 2004, killing about 240,000 people.

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National Gallery, WC2, Wed to 15 Jun SS Iraq is a country defined by the terrible legacy of dictatorship and the devastating invasion led by western powers.

Tensions around the issue are high in the area, which has among the country's highest rates of emigration to Mexico's northern states and to the United States because of the devastating poverty, a legacy of generations of mining going back to the Spaniards that left large swaths of barren landscape and depleted water.

This concept has huge implications, in particular the need to redress the balance of two generations' legacy of car-based planning: the devastating effect on our inner city areas - which have seen a mass exodus to the suburbs - cannot be ignored.

This demands the courage to pursue an equitable and science-based 2030 decarbonisation target of around 80%. Anything less and the EU will renege on its 2°C commitments and, as the Commission rightly notes, bequeath to future generations a legacy of "devastating impacts".

While Peabody Energy may have hired a notorious public relations firm to hawk its international ad campaign, a village trustee and her rural farming community have exposed the devastating legacy of the world's largest coal company near its historic Illinois beginnings.

The legacy of the conflict is absolutely devastating.

Moreover, many Haitians are struggling with the legacy of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake which devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, in January 2010.

In Barbara Haskell's "The Legacy of the Armory Show: Fiasco or Transformation?" you learn that many American artists were devastated.

Profound scepticism about the use of military force is the legacy of the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003 (about which the Chilcot report is likely to be devastating) and the hopelessly ill-prepared military operations in Afghanistan.

"It's a legacy of the coup".

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