Sentence examples for world decimated from inspiring English sources
It shows a world decimated by a man-made agricultural blight that forces other options to be scoped out.
Given the way that the military regimes in the Arab world decimated all independent secular political parties over the last 50 years, there is little chance of any Arab country going from Mubarak to Jefferson without going through some Khomeini.
The Last Wild series by Piers Torday - these three spectacular books are about a world decimated by humans, and the possibility of that loss feels very real and urgent and frightening - and they're also fantastic adventure stories, about bravery and animals and human capacity to do huge good as well as harm.
This year's line-up runs the gamut from more literary works by Faber and Canadian writer Emily St John Mandel, picked for her vision of a world decimated by a flu pandemic Station Eleven, to MR Carey's zombie novel The Girl With All the Gifts, called "as original, thrilling and powerful a novel as anything I've read in a long time" by James Smythe in the Guardian.
Nier is set in an alternate reality created by events stemming from Drakengards fifth ending: in this reality, the world was decimated by a plague created by the magical beings who came through the portal, bringing humanity to the brink of extinction.
A decade before, George Stewart's haunting and award-winning work Earth Abides portrayed a world surreptitiously decimated by a cataclysmic pox that leaves only small pockets of humankind left to pick up the pieces.
(Is it too much to see shadows of the e-reading experience in these sliding words?) Has the storm transported Mr. Lessmore to a bleak new world of topsy-turvy gray chaos that is also a world of decimated, discarded books and disorienting illiteracy?
Twenty years after most of the world was decimated in Independence Day, the landmark-exploding baddies are back to finish the job in the sequel, with Jeff Goldblum returning to fend them off.
Nokia's OZO VR cameras made their debut around 2015 at a time when Nokia looked like it had all but given up on hardware, after seeing its mobile phone business — once the biggest in the world — get decimated by the rise of Android and the iPhone and eventually sold off to Microsoft (which continued to wind it down after also failing to resuscitate it).
But most of the traffic was going the other way: smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague were only some of the Old World diseases which infiltrated the New World, swiftly decimating thousands of Native Americans.
Fish populations around the world have been decimated by overfishing — but new research suggests that this could soon change if the world got its act together.
