Sentence examples for previously devastated from inspiring English sources

Search and rescue teams in Aceh province, an area previously devastated by a massive quake and tsunami in 2004, used tractors to shift the rubble in attempts to reach people buried in their houses.

Search and rescue teams in Aceh province, an area previously devastated by a massive quake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, used tractors to shift the rubble in attempts to reach people buried in their houses.

Since a ceasefire between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army more than two years ago, Ogwal's village in northern Uganda has received agricultural training, seeds and tools from the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to revive farming in an area previously devastated by rebel attacks.

Justifying the purge, which was spoken about euphemistically but carried out in secrecy, the Argentine military espoused a brand of anti-Communist ferocity that echoed Franco's Fascist witch hunt, which had previously devastated Republican Spain — a brand of ferocity that also shared his deeply entrenched ultra-Catholic and anti-Semitic views.

It was a sunny morning, and this white beacon of modern architecture looked incredible atop a landscape previously devastated by bushfires.

Tropical Storm Katrina was a short-lived, weak tropical cyclone that produced minor damage across areas previously devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Among the first batsmen to succeed against previously devastating googly bowlers, he adapted his technique to meet the new styles of bowling that arose early in his career; he mixed classical shots with an effective defence.

(L'Aquila had previously been devastated in 1349, 1461, 1703 and 1915, when the death toll was 30,000).

The trial site was a commercial banana plantation in the Northern Territory of Australia where TR4 has become endemic and where Cavendish banana plants had previously been devastated by the disease.

It was centred at a depth of 6 km (3.8 mi), about 10 km (6 mi) from Christchurch, which had previously been devastated by another magnitude 6.3 ML earthquake in February 2011.

Boko Haram's seven-year insurgency has left Borno's farmland – which previously fed Nigeria – devastated and abandoned.