Sentence examples for suffered devastation from inspiring English sources

Ms. Kim was performing for schoolchildren from the Tohoku region, which suffered devastation in the earthquake and tsunami.

In an interview, Ghazi al-Zargani, 34, the local representative of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, whose followers have staged uprisings against American forces, said Mr. Sadr's organization had regarded the Japanese troops in a positive light because "Japan was also occupied by the United States and suffered devastation in Hiroshima".

It has suffered devastation due to earthquakes several times in the past.

Divided between government and rebel halves for nearly two years, the historic Syrian city of Aleppo has suffered devastation on a massive scale.

During 1940 and 1941 Bristol suffered devastation from German air-raids, and the BBC decided to move the orchestra again.

This comes just two years after large parts of the province suffered devastation as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Few stations themselves suffered such devastation, Mr. Jezycki.

The area of the Muslim rebellions too suffered catastrophic devastation and depopulation.

And none of the amendments has won the hearts of Russia's elderly, who suffered the devastation of the second world war as well as persecution at the hands of the state.

Otherwise Iraq would have gained nuclear weapons in the 1980's, it might now have a province called Kuwait and a chunk of Iran, and the region might have suffered nuclear devastation.

The hospital in this show adds to its unpleasant ambience by being located on the site of a factory that suffered a devastation loss of life in a fire.