Sentence examples for power devastated from inspiring English sources

By forensically targeting aspirational middle class voters – "eight people sipping wine in Kettering", as Peter Mandelson's former assistant Derek Draper put it – 13 years of New Labour in power devastated its historic base.

Flak and fighters (Soviet MiGs) inflicted significant losses on Allied aircrews, while U.S. air power devastated North Korea, dropping 635,000 tons of bombs, the equivalent in explosive yield of 40 Hiroshima bombs, as well as 32,557 tons of napalm, leveling its cities and hitting its dams.

With many of the world's traditional power centers devastated and the Soviet leadership controlling vast natural resources and "the energies of one of world's greatest peoples," a contest about the nature of world order was inevitable.

We are already seeing that with less than a 1-degree rise in global temperatures, extreme weather has the power to devastate communities and to hamper the ability to grow enough food to feed a growing global population.

Good intentions have not lost their power to devastate or to mire the earnest bearers of them in the Hindu Kush.

And it shows that a missed phone call or even a single word has the power to devastate or resuscitate a relationship.

The Arabs depend on the industrialized nations as a market for their oil... Since the onset of the nuclear age, Russia & the U.S. have been dependent because each has the power to devastate the other.

Permanentlyintoxicated, Ricardo will recognizeLily's essence no matter how she disguisesherself, no matter how many yearspass between their assignations, reunionswhose power to devastate Ricardo driveshim to the point of suicide, and which shedismisses as bland interludes betweenmore compelling love affairs.

A couple of moments found her score-bound, but the voice itself, engulfing in its beauty and power, sounds devastating in this music, and the great scenes were wonderfully realised: the mixture of pride, desperation and self-loathing as Kostelnička prepares to kill Jenůfa's child was terrifying in its veracity; the vision of death gazing through the window froze your marrow.

I and others have the intellectual power to devastate the arguments of those who pine for either a return to a segregated or Old World America.

Whatever its alchemy, this perverse dynamic has intermittently recurred, each wave of violence fortifying Netanyahu's power while devastating the peace process Hamas deplores.