Sentence examples for though devastating from inspiring English sources

Though devastating for the dinosaurs, the asteroid strike cleared the way for other animals to gain ground and thrive on the planet.

Some locals pointed out that the city suffered from flooding each year, and that this was actually a bigger problem than a tsunami which, though devastating, is likely to strike only once a generation.

Though devastating (downing ∼ 70% of the timber at Harvard Forest), the disturbance was not indiscriminate; it left behind a heterogeneous landscape comprised of different levels of canopy damage.

Consider the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The initial event was confusing because, though devastating, it was not clear whether its impact was on foreign policy and affairs of state (that is, whether it was an act of war) or on domestic policy and criminal justice (that is, whether it was a criminal act), a question that still seems unsettled.

The defeat off the coast of Durazzo, though devastating to Guiscard's fleet, had inflicted little damage to his army as the majority of it had disembarked before the battle in preparation of the siege of Durazzo.

The losses were not as great as some had feared, however, suggesting investors think that a possible Greek exit from the euro would be manageable for the global economy, though devastating for Greece and destabilizing in Europe.

While he was on vacation in Ireland in 2001, though, a devastating car accident fractured his skull and crushed his hip, sending Mr. Gray into a profound depression.

Those crops can mix with others, and that would be troublesome, though not devastating.

The lack of investor enthusiasm -- though hardly devastating for EADS, the world's third-largest aerospace company after Boeing and Lockheed Martin -- cast a pall over its flagship project: a $12 billion plan to build a superjumbo jet, the A3XX, that is intended to eclipse the Boeing 747.

An isolated ripple or two in countries with specific, well-known challenges, such as India, might be containable (though domestically devastating); a more widespread downturn among emerging economies, prompted by the financial turmoil, would be likely to hit the US itself, potentially forcing the Fed to reverse course.

Others such as David Neumark, director of the Center for Economics & Public Policy at UC Irvine, contends the job losses are real, though not devastating.