So far, the floods have claimed at least 16 lives, and wrecked the livelihoods of thousands more.
If the HDP scrapes in, the ruling party's majority could be imperilled and the presidential ambitions wrecked.
That's what wrecked my life and career".
The UK's budgetary contributions are significant and especially pertinent in times of austerity; the common fisheries policy has arguably wrecked the industry and the common agricultural policy is protectionist and costly.
Last night, on the RTE Prime Time programme, he came under pressure over a scandal that almost wrecked his chance to run in the presidential campaign.
He has brought us King James bibles for every school, religious backers for academies, any backers for free schools, discarded standards of nutrition, dredged up O-levels again, building programmes wrecked, and now any old know-all can come teaching.
Perhaps people will even be happy with a federalist system, who knows?" At the small Govan Cross shopping centre, where Barbour's statue may soon stand, James Mackay, a retired bank worker, is running errands for a disabled friend who, he said, had been "wrecked" by worries over the bedroom tax and welfare cuts.
Michael Powell once said about Peeping Tom, the movie that effectively wrecked his career: "It's full of sympathy.
These latter not only stopped the burgeoning economic recovery in its tracks: they sapped the animal spirits of entrepreneurs and wrecked any hope of the boost to confidence they were supposed to encourage.
David Cameron has intensified the Tory assault on Ed Miliband by saying Labour has no right to portray itself as the champion of the low-paid after it wrecked people's lives in the crash.
"You do pay attention," said Rob Hunsberger, a homebuilder who is rebuilding houses wrecked by the storm.
