Sentence examples for may be devastating from inspiring English sources

For Tunisia, the impact of the attack may be devastating.

Scott, who advises the Tristan administration, says she fears the failure to remove the mussels when they were first found may be devastating.

This realization may be devastating for gifted young autistic people at this stage, and has been a cause of depression in some and even of suicide on occasion.

In a way, the European border patrol was onto something -- Gloeckner's cartoons may be devastating, but they can be arousing as well, because that, too, is part of Minnie's experience.

In his memo, Hill wrote, "The broad discretion granted government officials in such cases may result in consequences never intended by Senator Mitchell; indeed, the impact of his report on the career and family of a player he decides to name publicly may be devastating".

In today's climate, declining demand may be devastating.

The main streets and malls of the Midwest may be devastated, but you would never know that walking through the Hudson Yards development on the west side of Manhattan or in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood.

Lives may be devastated and some things will be lost forever, but rebuilding is what they will do.

Israel, in Netanyahu's calculations as it appears to us, may be devastated by such a possibility.

The small islands which are the home of the Mascarene martin subspecies P. b. borbonica may be devastated by cyclones, which have the potential to cause severe temporary losses to the populations on Mauritius and Réunion.

I think 15 is a really precarious age, but it's also the time when girls want to be independent and do their own thing, so if you leave, it may not be devastating: it may be liberating.