Sentences with phrase «as economic devastation»

The cost of war measured in human pain and loss as well as economic devastation, and a waning British Empire combined with new questions of European security set the stage for a complex and significant shift in British artistic movements.

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He was the son of «Okie» migrants to California, fleeing economic devastation and treated in their new home as immigrants often are — with stereotypes and derision.

MacDonald had been rejected by Labour (as had the über - Blairites today) but he went on to make the cuts (in a Tory dominated coalition) and cause economic devastation for a generation.

Between the shutdown of oil refineries and chemical plants, impaired roads and ports, and widespread damage to homes, businesses and cars, the economic toll from Hurricane Harvey is now being estimated as the second - costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, trailing only the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

San Pedro, which was abandoned by several residents during the 1940s as a result of the economic depression which followed the devastation of the 1931 hurricane and the decline in the coconut industry, was by the mid-1980s one of the most economically affluent communities in Belize.

Misrach's portrayals of this once pristine riverine corridor, now known as Cancer Alley, document the far - reaching and ongoing devastation generated by more than 140 industrial plants: eroded ecological systems and the economic deprivation of local, and mostly poor African - American, communities.

Rauschenberg took note of the economic devastation of the region, as he collected gas - station signs and deteriorated automotive and industrial parts littering the landscape.

The scale of that economic devastation is hard to comprehend, but you can start by imagining what the world would look like today with an economy half as big, which would produce only half as much value, generating only half as much to offer the workers of the world.