Sentences with phrase «widespread devastation in»

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation in the community, with water and wind damage and destructive flooding along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain.

Charlton Heston is the police captain who leads the desperate fight to stop the madman - high atop the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - before he sets off widespread devastation in the jam - packed stadium.

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Unlike past episodes in recent history, the crisis began in the world's most sophisticated financial systems, causing widespread economic devastation.

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have caused unprecedented and widespread devastation, forcing thousands of people out of damaged homes and communities in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

There is currently a ban on small - scale mining in the country following the widespread devastation of the water resources and forest reserves due to the activities of illegal miners.

«Tropical ecosystems suffered widespread devastation each time that greenhouse gases rose rapidly in the past, despite differences in the rates of change and species involved.

High school students in television look nothing like high school students in real life (well, not The Roaring Twenties was a decade of great economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and postponed spending, a

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.

The devastation of the widespread drought of the 1860s is evident in the many ruins dotting the countryside.

In the years that followed, armed groups from both sides of Colombia's civil war have intensified their incursions in pursuit of their cut of the profit, including the introduction of illicit crops such as coca, causing terrible and widespread devastatioIn the years that followed, armed groups from both sides of Colombia's civil war have intensified their incursions in pursuit of their cut of the profit, including the introduction of illicit crops such as coca, causing terrible and widespread devastatioin pursuit of their cut of the profit, including the introduction of illicit crops such as coca, causing terrible and widespread devastation.

Depleting fossil fuel reserves, depleting mineral reserves, widespread devastation of eco systems, depletion of biodiversity, acidification of oceans, dwindling fresh water resources, food production to food demand ratio becoming more acute, and of course the primary driver for all of the above continued increase in the world's population.

A ferocious tsunami, spawned by an 8.9 - magnitude earthquake in Japan, slammed the eastern coast of Japan leaving widespread devastation.

Update (Sept. 26, 2017): This article predates Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico and caused widespread devastation on the island in late - September 2017.