Sentence examples for played a devastating role from inspiring English sources

The same financial instruments, of course, played a devastating role in the recent crisis.

The outbreak of bubonic plague, or Black Death, also played a devastating role in the decline of the Pax Mongolica.

Colombia is responsible for about 80% of the world's cocaine trade and the drug has played a massive role in the devastating internal conflict that has crippled Colombia for years.

A1 FIREPROOFING FAULTED -- The head of an inquiry into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers said that inadequate or faulty fireproofing that had gone unrepaired for years might have played a role in the devastating failure of the two 110-story buildings on Sept. 11.

Immune suppression is also believed to have played a role in the devastating mass dieoffs of seals with viral infections (Hall et al. 1992).

But Ceide's residents may have played a key role in the bog's devastating growth.

As Mr. Barrett convincingly reminds us, poor neighborhoods played a central role in turning themselves around, especially in quelling the devastating crack epidemic of the 1980's.

Most notably, we played a leading role in supporting relief operations in Nepal after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in April.

Last summer's appeals court decision "is playing a harsh to devastating role at the SEC and the CFTC and other places," Harvey Goldschmid, a Columbia law professor and former Democratic SEC commissioner, said in a recent interview.

"Technology played a huge role".

A Belgian cell within the Groupe Islamique Marocain Combattant (GICM) played an important role in the devastating 2004 Madrid train bombings.