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Example sentences for: devastation

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If Milosevic continues the cleansing, said Clinton, he will suffer further costs: the devastation of his military and the loss of Yugoslavian sovereignty over Kosovo.
Still reeling from the effects of the Persian devastation, Jerusalem was conquered in 638 by the forces of Islam.
After centuries of devastation by war, fire, plunder, and sheer neglect, the meticulous restoration work by the Québec provincial government has been a major act of faith in the cultural legacy of New France, reinforcing the provincial motto “Je me souviens.”
As Foer points out, other areas of Europe experienced blights of the potato crop from the same fungus, but none suffered the human devastation that Ireland did.
A piece argues that rising carbon-dioxide levels are almost certainly causing the weird weather of the 1990s, and that they will cause unimaginable devastation if the world does not slash fossil-fuel consumption soon.