Even small nuclear devices can devastate a city by blast, fire and radiation.

Without a doubt, they were leaving to devastate the city in next couple hours.

No other means can devastate the city.

The disease's impact has devastated the city's tourism sector.

But when the city descended into lawlessness as the floods devastated the city, hospital staff could not reach the clinic and knew that the embryos would soon be lost.

In the early 1990s, 30,000 fell out of work, devastating the communities that had sprung up around them.

In mountain communities devastated by the virus, however, the decision to reopen has been met with suspicion.

Last night a backlash was under way as angry locals blasted the thugs for devastating their community.

The mud flow has devastated the community.

The fire devastated the community, stagnating business growth once again.

The original design had a budget of 680 million, but that has climbed to 1.6 billion, partly caused by the demand for construction in areas devastated by the 2011 tsunami.

After the earthquake of 2005 that devastated the area, wiping out villages and roads, she continued to provide as much help as she could to former employers and their families.

This devastated the area and the city struggled to recover.

Rust devastated the area in the 1870s causing wheat crop failures.

They claim that the oil projects would threaten their traditional way of life and devastate the area's environment.

They protect countries from swings in local and foreign investor sentiment that can devastate an economy.

Hurricanes periodically devastate the economy.

That in turn caused an asset bubble and a financial crisis that devastated the economy in 2007-09.

Ministers have not entirely given up hope that extending socialising bans around the country could be enough to control the epidemic without devastating the economy again.

Confiscation and forced labor devastated the economy caused rising prices for essential products, and generally caused the city to decline.