Sentence examples for possible devastation from inspiring English sources

AS it happens, in the case of this particular field, many others have been dismayed about its possible devastation, and a local opposition group has formed to try and protect it.

While forecasters focused much of their attention last week on the possible devastation that the storm was expected to wreak on New York's shoreline, its worst effects were ultimately felt upstate, where record rainfall produced extensive flooding.

Our correspondent says the floods seem to have caught many by surprise, yet it was only a few days ago that the Tanzania Meteorological Agency warned of possible devastation by heavy rains.

Reading the footnote's approximately 260 words, it is hard to see it as an agent of possible financial devastation.

Such a determination to help had partly inspired her to get the business going again as quickly as possible, despite the devastation suffered in this part of the country.

The elderly who remained are facing devastation and possible radiation contamination, a challenge equal only to the task this generation faced when its defeated, despairing nation had to rebuild from the rubble of the war.

But although political leaders of both parties expressed sympathy for the victims, it took only hours for Washington to face off over the possible cost of repairing the devastation and how it would be paid.

Here's what caught my eye in the book room this week: The cover for the paperback edition of Rawi Hage's IMPAC Dublin Award-winning novel "De Niro's Game": if it's possible for an image of devastation to be beautiful, this certainly qualifies.

By Andrea Walker August 12, 2008 Here's what caught my eye in the book room this week: The cover for the paperback edition of Rawi Hage's IMPAC Dublin Award-winning novel "De Niro's Game": if it's possible for an image of devastation to be beautiful, this certainly qualifies.

Also, given the level of shock, numbness and despair, due to their devastation, it is possible that such subjects "may be exploited without feeling particularly exploited, or without believing they are being exploited [ 62]." To ameliorate such concerns the ToMMo prepared two distinct consent forms, one for health-checkups, the other for biobanking research.

What made the new prosperity possible, though, was precisely the thoroughness of the devastation that preceded it.