Sentence examples for the total devastation from inspiring English sources

In fact, given the odds against them - the total devastation caused by the Japanese invasion and the civil war, and Mao's catastrophic blunders - the Chinese did remarkably well in the realm of industry and agriculture.

George Mitchell, the British travel writer, who visited the occupied territories in November 2014, calls Agdam, an occupied Azerbaijani town, "a ghost town" and "Hiroshima of the Caucasus" and reports on the total devastation of nature and heritage all around.

The losses included the total devastation of several large swaths of forest and swamp in the Congo and in New Guinea.

He said: "We've gone from the horror of seeing the water rising and coming into our homes to then seeing the total devastation it's caused after a couple of hours to now trying to be positive and trying to go forward and work with the insurers".

The growing number of low-probability events that could lead to the total devastation of human society.

When asked to describe how the tsunami disaster was unique, he replied: "Just the sheer force of what happened, and the total devastation... and the miracle conditions for anyone to have survived".

Lewis initially took this total devastation as a discouraging sign the mark of "another boring detergent".

But if the threat of escalation is real and the results of war are really so atrocious, then there are good consequentialist reasons to be opposed to war: wars fought with weapons of mass destruction will tend to produce horrifying consequences including the potentially total devastation of what was called during the Cold War, "mutually assured destruction".

The words "total devastation" keep getting thrown around.

In his deft prose, rife with morbid imagery, Cormac McCarthy spells out metaphors that offer bleak hope in the face of total devastation and provide wisdom beyond value, thus making perhaps the most important dystopian novel of the early 21st century.

The use of alternative foods, as shown by a study in Fiji, reduced the likelihood of total devastation from hurricanes (Campbell 1984).