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The lessons learned from these groups are that "[t]he allies must begin reconstructing Kosovar society now, without delay, even before they make or find their way into Kosovo itself and face the immense task of rebuilding the province's decimated infrastructure and housing stock.
The congenital colorblindness of Pingelap is a direct result of the place's isolation and its vulnerability to natural cataclysm--it was a storm that decimated the island's population and enforced inbreeding, causing a recessive gene to flourish.
This somehow allowed the plants to resist adverse weather conditions and even the grape plague, phylloxera, that decimated vines all over Europe in the second half of the 19th century.
During their Directoire, a new wave of executions — the White (royalist) Terror — decimated the Jacobins and their supporters.
The city streets are being decimated,' by illegal dumpers, DiClaudio told the judge.