And I was devastated.

Sarah Palin, they were devastating.

And for them, autism was devastating.

The effect on our peaceful tourist destinations was devastating.

Israel, the occupying Power, has left the Gaza Strip completely devastated.

Demanding a lot more will be more destructive than constructive.

This multiplicity of roles can engender destructive behaviour and violence within the family.

Often the impact can be devastating, affecting all segments of the economy and the infrastructure.

Or if you want to be destructive, you can just crumple it up and, you know, toss it to the corner.

Well, in the wrong hands, mightn't such a tool become a deadly weapon?

The disproportionate impact of the resulting hardships on poor and vulnerable groups has been particularly devastating.

The present economic situation of the country is characterized by an economic infrastructure that has been almost completely destroyed.

Either the underlying problem is fixed before the patient wakes up, or the pain will be devastating.

Even the perception of fraud can be damaging as it makes people less inclined to accept election results.

Our fear is that that crisis may spread and become a firestorm engulfing the entire subregion.

The Government of Rwanda has inherited a country that has been destroyed, looted, drained and deeply traumatized by genocide and other massacres.

This has caused immense suffering and hardship for the Palestinian people and has had a devastating impact on the fabric and well being of Palestinian society.

The earthquake that occurred in the northern reaches of the Indian subcontinent on 8 October was particularly devastating.

That was very devastating could have crossed three people from beginning to end and this shot would have shattered the three

The impact of HIV and AIDS on children and adolescents (10 18 years) is devastating and liable to get worse.

When Germany had its hands free for an attack in the west, the Battle of France began in May 1940, and the same Blitzkrieg tactics proved just as devastating there.

Since the change of route of wastewater output in 1958, pollution had spread up and down the Shiranui Sea, damaging fisheries there too.

But partly in spite and partly because of its persistence, colonialism has an unusual feature it tends to be self destructive.

This is why the current spiral of ever lower interest rates in Germany (and northern Europe) and higher risk premia for most of the rest of the eurozone is so destructive.

Continuing hostilities in Abkhazia are having a devastating effect on the country apos s economy and making it impossible for the Government to devote the necessary attention and resources to the opportunities resulting from independence.

Cuba firmly believes in the ability of African leaders to find solutions for the conflict situations that have a devastating effect on the economic and social advancement of the region and create an additional obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Such natural disasters, primarily in the form of hurricanes but increasingly including storm surges and floods, are occurring with growing frequency and intensity in our region, with pervasive and long term effects on our economies.

But as with all anesthetics, Draghi s cannot and will not last forever. Either the underlying problem is fixed before the patient wakes up, or the pain will be devastating.

So Dr. Z's Lucifer Effect, although it focuses on evil, really is a celebration of the human mind's infinite capacity to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains.

Meanwhile, one dry season has followed after another without any water flowing to the Ganges and this is having a cumulatively disastrous effect on the economy and environment of one third of our country and on the socio economic survival of 40 million people.

But subsequent infighting between the revolution s leaders, Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko, was so destructive that Viktor Yanukovych, whose efforts to manipulate the 2004 presidential election incited the revolution, is now President and Tymoshenko is in jail.