Sentence examples for war devastation from inspiring English sources

Fourteen years of war, devastation and lawlessness ensued, including the execution of President Doe.

Alongside the tank fan T-shirts ("Get Foch'd", "Peek-a-boom!") and the Kitchener kitchenware stand Airfix models of second world war devastation.

The elder Saro-Wiwa saw clearly that, rather than bringing wealth and prosperity, it had led to war, devastation, social division and the degradation of farm and fishing grounds.

Sixty years ago last week, US secretary of state George C Marshall stepped up to the podium at Harvard University and set out his case for supporting European recovery from second world war devastation.

There are lots of old ruins to look at – from ruins that may prompt a sentimental nostalgia, such as Turner's Tintern Abbey, to more horrifying ones, such as scenes of second world war devastation in works by artists such as Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland.

After World War II, with no war devastation, the United States accounted for about half the world's economic output (GDP).

UNICEF says that the combined fall-out of drought and post-war devastation has also had an impact on education, as children are withheld from school because of insufficient resources, and as schools run out of water sources.

The first drug war caused devastation enough.

The Liberian capital bears the scars of war and devastation.

Brave photojournalists, embedded with military units, were dispatching strong images showing the war's devastation.

Their humvee combat vehicles did not look out of place amid the war zone devastation.