Sentence examples for might be decimated from inspiring English sources

The specter of hungry southern nations fishing the newly navigable doughnut hole prompted a recent report by the Pew Environment Group to warn that without a new set of regulations for the region, Arctic cod populations might be decimated.

If endangered native birds are infected, their populations might be decimated by an outbreak.

If the trees moved from distant zones prove to adapt well, this kind of assisted migration could be adopted as a way to maintain the health of forests that might otherwise be decimated by climate change.

Civil society, however, would be decimated.

So the intent of Pakistan has to be decimated.

This golf course is not going to be decimated this week".

Then, in the 2003 finale of "The Life of Mammals," during a spry cavort across the ruins of the ancient Mayan capital, Tikal, he suggested that the city, which rivalled Rome in scale and was the seat of one of Mesoamerica's most flourishing kingdoms, might have been decimated by its own inhabitants' overestimation of natural resources.

Before the snail hunt, Liff-Grieff worried that the native snail population might have been decimated after so many years of drought.

Al Qaeda might have been "decimated" yet our fear of terrorism remains a specter that haunts our way of life, hindering our Constitution and foreign policy.

On the positive side, other remaining species -- even those whose populations have been decimated by human activity -- might bounce back.

The Houston Texans were blown away by the Green Bay Packers last week, then turned around Sunday to trounce the Baltimore Ravens, who might have been the best team before their defense was decimated.