Sentence examples for make a wasteland from inspiring English sources

"This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process.

But over the weekend, Mr. Z named himself: He is Steven J. Hatfill, 48, a prominent germ warfare specialist who formerly worked in the Army labs at Fort Detrick, Md. Dr. Hatfill made a televised statement on Sunday, describing himself as "a loyal American" and attacking the authorities and the media for trying "to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life".

Like the armies of Rome, they will, without compunction, make a wasteland and call it progress.

"I made a wasteland of everything I touched," he once remarked.

Dr Steven Hatfill claimed that the FBI investigators and the media had made a "wasteland" of his life but had not come up with a shred of evidence linking him to the anthrax letters mailed to American politicians last year.

We argue here that the first and the foremost factor in making a wasteland into a sustainable production system is to instill a sense of ownership among the farmers.

Our rivers are toxic, the rainforests slashed and burned, vast tracts of land made a wasteland due to our insatiable desires for oil, gas and minerals.

Eventually the horrors of that war and the words I had read by the Roman historian Tacitus, "They made a wasteland and called it peace," became too poignant for even me to ignore.

The realisation that you've spent a year making a toxic wasteland of your body came on January 2nd, when you stumbled out of some house party coughing up mucky bits that could very well once have been part of your lungs or other vital organs.

The realisation that you've spent a year making a toxic wasteland of your body came on January 2nd, when you stumbled out of some house party coughing up mucky bits that could very well once have been part of your lungs or other vital organs.

Watts is right, of course, to remind us that drinking and thinking like an alcoholic produce "chaos, dysfunction, and insanity," making life a wasteland.