Sentence examples for staggering damage from inspiring English sources

As with casualties, a few eruptions cause staggering damage, while most are much less destructive.

After some overnight calculations by city and state budget officials, they arrived at a staggering damage estimate from $34 billion up to $100 billion, depending on what insurance would cover.

The threat of far more staggering damage to Wyeth became clear a few months later, when Dallas lawyer Kip Petroff won a groundbreaking suit in state court in east Texas in August 1999.

The staggering damage of the past cannot be reversed.

The task has been Herculean -- a humanitarian worst case scenario in one of the world's poorest countries, with massive casualties, multiple catastrophes, the decimation of the nation's civil service, reams of critical records destroyed and staggering damage to the country's critical infrastructure.

Mr. Bush suffered staggering political damage from the handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but three years later he led a bipartisan Congressional majority to pass an emergency $700 billion bailout package that helped halt the free-fall of both the financial and auto industries.

But the fighting leveled entire districts of the Old City in the west, and caused staggering infrastructural damage.

Robertson, the evangelical media mogul, came out for marijuana legalization at the start of March, citing the staggering human damage of the nation's incarceration system.

The desire for retribution has been visited on tobacco companies, who have been slapped with staggering "punitive damages".

Rita made landfall less than a month after Hurricane Katrina had devastated the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,200 people and causing a staggering $108 billion dollars in damage.

They sought a staggering $100 million in damages.