Sentence examples for period of devastation from inspiring English sources

"I was really devastated, but it lasted ― the period of devastation was so short," Owens said on a segment of "Good Morning America" after the coverage. .

"I was really devastated, but it lasted ― the period of devastation was so short,"  Owens said on "Good Morning America," wearing a Yale University hat and his Trader Joe's name tag.

At least one thing has stayed the same in this period of devastation.

"We should remember that he solved the problem of homeless children and bailed out the railroads in a period of devastation," the news agency Interfax quoted him as saying.

Emperor Akihito, she pointed out, was 11 years old when the war ended and Japan endured a brief but traumatic period of devastation and poverty, with millions left homeless and some estimates finding that the country had lost one third of its wealth.

It assures a period of economic devastation.

Why didn't the countries of Europe decimated by World War I learn from their tragic mistake just two decades earlier before they rushed headlong into another devastating period of bloodshed and devastation?

The Bronx endured a period of fires, abandonment and devastation, and it has made an extraordinary comeback.

The centralized organization of the Southern Baptists has been credited with aiding the amazing growth of the convention following a period of recovery after the devastation of the American Civil War (1861 65).

Next to content, thinkers differ in their treatment of episodes of devastation and conflict and periods of decline.

Educational and health systems, particularly in rural areas, were devastated by the long periods of war; reconstruction has been slow since peace in 1992 due to inadequate funds in the face of devastation of both schools and hospitals [ 46].