Sentence examples for waves of misery from inspiring English sources

Syria's war is a strategic stalemate that no side can win, but the ebb and flow of the battlelines creates waves of misery that confront civilian families every day with the need to make life-and-death decisions about staying, moving or returning.

And this in turn means that if health reform goes down, we're going to be looking at a wave of misery spreading across the land.

"I just discovered this on one of Strut's peerless Disco Discharge compilations: a track on which disco's melancholy undertow turns into a tidal wave of misery, leaving the listener with the improbable image of Randy Crawford madly chonging drugs on the dancefloor in a doomed bid to ward off despair".

The bulk of those cuts is expected to come from cutting wages, pensions and welfare benefits, heaping a new wave of misery on Greeks who say repeated rounds of austerity have pushed them to the brink and failed to transform the country for the better.

Even before the recent flight cancellations, airlines and passengers were facing a new wave of travel misery.

It is a cold and irresponsible act on Toyota's part, a decision that was not necessary from a business standpoint and that completely disregards the wave of human misery it is setting in motion.

The disintegration of Syria has sent a tidal wave of human misery crashing over the country's borders, some of it lapping on the shores of the European continent.

The Ezadeen and the plight of its unfortunate passengers are part of an often unreported wave of human misery and hardship that sees hundreds of people try to cross the Mediterranean every day to reach Europe.