Sentence examples for massive spate from inspiring English sources

In 2007, and again in 2008, a massive spate of violence flared against Christians in eastern Orissa state following the killing of a Hindu nationalist leader.

An eight-metre levee has kept the town of Grafton dry, though the Clarence river is in massive spate, but Yamba, further downstream has no levee and is under water.

However, contact with the Islamic world, where Greek manuscripts were preserved and expanded, soon led to a massive spate of Latin translations in the 12th century.

Weather officials in California warned potential beachgoers to stay far away from the ocean until at least Thursday due to a spate of massive waves they said could cause "certain death".

Amazon brought the Alexa to Spain earlier this year, but the distinction between that brand of Spanish and the one spoken in Mexico is broad enough to require some massive changes, not to mention a spate of different local customs that need to be adhered to with the building of Skills. .

Over the last two months, the legal basis for the Obama administration's massive telephony metadata gathering program has been challenged by a spate of lawsuits filed by plaintiffs ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to a birther attorney in Florida.

That will bring respite to Colombians who have suffered the effects of a recent spate of rebel sabotage on infrastructure that has caused massive oil spills and toppled energy pylons, leaving hundreds of thousands without clean water and electricity.

Speaking after a 24 year old surfer, Ben Linden, was bitten in half by a "massive" shark on Saturday, the state's Fisheries Minister, Norman Moore, said the spate of fatal attacks was "cause for great alarm".

"The BNDES has funded a range of highly damaging infrastructure projects, notably including some massive Amazonian dams that have flooded vast areas of forest and promoted a spate of associated road and power line building and deforestation," he explained.

Its massive China plants are run with military-like discipline, which labour rights activists say contributed to spate of suicides in 2010.

The spate of stadium construction was spurred on by the need to cater excessively to free-spending corporations that in turn underwrote massive profits.