Anyone who watches will understand devastation caused by regressive attitudes.
A batch of them, timed to go off near-simultaneously and secreted on a series of trains, will cause devastation, overwhelming security services, wrecking vital infrastructure and creating widespread panic, all at minimal effort and expense to the terrorists.
And will the devastation in Gaza make Palestinians fall into line behind Hamas, as they reliably have in the past, or will Hamas lose their support as Gazans count the escalating cost in blood and destruction?
By suggesting that reductions in council budgets will "wreak devastation on the lives of tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people", Patrick Butler paints an apocalyptic picture of impending social disaster that I simply do not recognise (Savage cuts will leave people on the streets, 19 January).
These cuts, as councils' own bleak risk assessments admit, will wreak devastation on the lives of tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people – a list that includes homeless people, care leavers, teenage parents, ex-offenders, victims of domestic violence, refugees, and people with mental illness or a learning disability.
Shane Smith embarks on an expedition to investigate why Greenland is melting, and the fact that the resulting sea level rise will mean devastation sooner than expected.
TRUMP: You go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50percentt.
Recovering from this degree of devastation will take decades, and even then the reef will be only a shadow of its prebleaching self.
"The devastation will have a direct consequence on the population [and] will increase the malnutrition problems, mainly for children," said Jean Pierre.
Even simple things like the disenchantment of people who are fired from their jobs — the model doesn't account for how devastating that experience can be," and what that sense of devastation will mean for the economy, he said.
