Sentence examples for major devastation from inspiring English sources

Katrina was a major devastation.

Shari Villarosa, the top American diplomat in Yangon, said the storm had caused "major devastation throughout the city".

If the Waffle House hasn't reopened after the storm, FEMA considers that a sign that the area has experienced major devastation.

We mostly hear the stories of major devastation.

The massive storm and colossal damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy caused major devastation for many.

Quite recently a major devastation hit a children's army run school in Peshawar when armed men continued to spew bullets point-blank on students for several hours, killing around 150 children and injuring double this figure, putting all of the country in a state of emergency.

A number of emerging and re-emerging viruses have caused epidemics or pandemics of infectious diseases leading to major devastations throughout human history.

And the Second World War, again, led to a major destruction and to devastation, repeating even a worse scale what had happened during the First World War.

Arthropod pests are responsible for major crop devastation and are vectors for the transmission of new and re-emerging diseases in humans and livestock.

Strategies of environmental movements to contain domestic and foreign corporations that are viewed as major perpetrators of rainforest devastation and the socio-economic degradation of this vast region.

The major cause of the devastation in the Ninth Ward and other areas of New Orleans was a result of the faulty design, construction and neglect of the levee system by the Army Corps of Engineers.