7 sentences with 'devastation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word devastation and other words derived from it.
• « The plague devastated the affected areas, none more so than in Europe. This devastation was largely due to the vulnerability of the European population to the disease, thanks to both poor harvests and a lack of medical know-how. »
• « This plan initially included the Soviets, who would thus be entitled to financial support to cope with the devastation caused by Germany (however, the USSR withdrew in 1948, leading to an economic and political split between East and West). »
• « Peaceful protests before the war increased in intensity during the war, and afterwards (partly due to the financial devastation of the war), a critical mass of British politicians finally conceded that India would have to be granted independence in the near future. The British state set the date for independence as 18 July 1947. »
• « The main factors for this pessimism in post-war art and philosophy were the devastation of the war itself, the threat of nuclear war between the superpowers and the decline of Europe's power on the world stage. »
• « There was also the simple fact that the world itself could not survive another world war; once the Cold War began in earnest in the late 1940s, the world was only a few decisions away from devastation, if not total destruction. »
• « However, social and economic devastation came in the 1340s, when Genoese merchants returning from the Black Sea inadvertently brought back a highly contagious rat-borne disease known as the bubonic plague. »
• « British textile mills consumed American cotton voraciously, and the devastation of the Napoleonic wars made Europe dependent on other American agricultural products, such as wheat. »