Even in the French Quarter, which was mostly spared the devastation visited upon neighborhoods like the Ninth Ward, "For Sale" signs hung from porch brackets, and on one street, a pickup truck had been abandoned, its hood open, its bed piled high with garbage.
The United Nations says the living standard has fallen since 1990, mostly because of the devastation of AIDS.
By accidents of geography and by the force of its wealth, the US has, to this point, been mostly protected from the devastation climate change has already visited on parts of the less developed world.
Sitting on a straw mat at the centre, their faces caked with the dust that permeates the air, children draw – mostly the scenes of devastation they have witnessed.
This was like touring a battle front — to the south I saw mostly forest, to the north devastation, especially from rapidly expanding oil palm plantations.
The neighborhood most popular among sophisticated young buyers is the Neustadt area on the north side of Elbe, opposite the Baroque city center, which mostly was spared the wartime devastation.
The project was abandoned following protests from a group of national and transnational American and European NGOs who feared the forceful eviction of nearly 200 thousand people - mostly tribal - and the devastation of their sustenance source.
And while the devastation may have seemed mostly the preoccupation of companies that had offices in buildings that were destroyed or damaged, others reacted to the attack by quietly putting their own disaster plans into action.
We mostly hear the stories of major devastation.
