Sentence examples for unprecedented devastation from inspiring English sources

In September 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused unprecedented devastation along the eastern seaboard.

Yet, as The Human Rights Watch noted in a widely-publicized report earlier this week, robot soldiers would also be utterly devoid of human compassion, and could easily wreak unprecedented devastation in the hands of a Stalin or Pol Pot.

It was, Mr Saeed admits, an "astonishing" response, one that had the quickest lift-off of any appeal run by the organisation he heads as chief executive since the unprecedented devastation of the tsunami nine years before.

The outbreak of World War I, or the supposed War to End All Wars, and the unprecedented devastation that ensued challenged the foundations of many cultures' belief systems, which led to a great deal of experimentation and exploration by artists with morality and in defining what exactly Art should be and do for a culture.

(Germany is the first to be challenged; Japan is the first to sign; and Hammond foresees that the alternative to his peace plan is a war of an unprecedented devastation, involving an "annihilating death ray" that could end all human life).

In view of the unprecedented devastation of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), the psychological overreaction tends to emphasize the safety aspects at the expense of the basic principle of designing industrial supply chains that achieve competitiveness and robustness simultaneously.

Its unprecedented power and devastation gave us an insight into a dangerous future in which climate change fuels weather of hitherto-unimagined ferocity.

Given that technology is advancing all the time and a few people could inflict an unprecedented amount of devastation on a civilian population through chemical, biological and even miniature nuclear weapons, is it wise to take this aggressive course?

The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander called the result of the earthquake an "almost unprecedented level of devastation", and committed the UK to ₤20 million in aid, while France promised €10 million.

In light of the Red Army's 20th century rampage, with unprecedented carnage and devastation and arguably the darkest time in Western history, was Patton not the sober warrior speaking truth to a political expediency or human fatigue?

"The devastation is unprecedented," New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on Tuesday morning.