Sentence examples for the potential devastation from inspiring English sources

As more and more people experience the ordeal of seeing an immediate relative succumb to severe cognitive disruption, awareness of the potential devastation of mental illness can only spread further, albeit by very unpleasant means.

In his annual letter to shareholders of his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett pointed out that the potential devastation caused by climate change will benefit – not harm – his insurance subsidiaries.

He accused Mr. Levy of using "shock tactics" in describing the potential devastation of the planned cuts, and compared it to threatening to sell the Washington Monument to balance the federal budget.

Political pressures already building on the administration and Congress to do more to deal with the potential devastation facing the gulf and somehow punish BP will likely intensify if the top kill effort fails.

But the Doomsday Clock, which Mrs. Langsdorf drew for the June 1947 cover of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as a way to evoke the potential devastation of nuclear weapons, did not stay in reverse.

"Compost-making is on the increase, because the government is recognising that it's not going to be able to afford fertiliser subsidies indefinitely and are quite worried about the potential devastation that climate change is likely to cause in the future".

In reasonably simple terms, he attempts to explain the basics of radiation and its effects on humans, the risks of the hydrogen bubble that formed within the reactor and the threat of an explosion and fire, and the nature and potential devastation of the worst-case scenario, a nuclear meltdown, a "China Syndrome".

According to Gerry Galloway, another civil engineering professor at the University of Maryland, in the storm preparedness game, the category of a hurricane, from one to five, was once the measure of potential devastation.

In their model, even when a hypothetical consumer estimates the risk of a disaster occurring is close to zero, he still estimates the scale of potential devastation to be between 26% and 32% of national capital stock, far greater than the effects of Hurricane Katrina or even the 2004 tsunami.

With separate short, medium, and long-term strategies in place, the team behind the pitch believes their design could curtail potential devastation to the oceanic ecosystem brought on by oil-drilling operations.

Research funded by multiple government agencies provided advance warnings about the path, power and potential devastation of this mass of wind-blown chaos.