Sentence examples for total devastation of from inspiring English sources

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 amount of time we have left before total devastation of the climate is the real imperative.Many scientists say that global warming is already happening (witness the anomalies in the current weather).

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

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

Mutually assured destruction is an example of the theory at work, where a "poison pill" strategy obviates an unpleasant outcome for both sides: total devastation of both attacker and attacked.

The Australian Red Cross said it had reports of "total devastation" on the southern island of Tanna, with most homes destroyed.

It's not often you see a look of total devastation on someone's face, but that was the expression Bassim Al-Shaker wore when I met him at a bar in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday night.

"It's total devastation for this community," he said.

Then international attention moved on, but Gretel Ehrlich chose to go to the heart, both physically and emotionally, of what became "a wild place of total devastation," where one hundred years of modernization seem to have been erased in one afternoon".

This juxtaposition — of images of total devastation and innocent-looking head shots — sets up the framework for the show.