Eathquakes and killer tsunamis have wreaked havoc in various parts of the world time and again. |
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Hitler turned the swastika into a striking political symbol and wreaked devastation beneath it. |
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Epizootics, such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, have repeatedly wreaked economic havoc without making people sick. |
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Using their mobile phones the drivers rang the fire service and told them of the devastation being wreaked as the traction engine chugged along. |
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Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries. |
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Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses. |
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It is well known that the introductions of alien species have wreaked havoc on indigenous fauna and flora worldwide. |
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I'd criticized him for showing mercy and compassion where I would have wreaked a devastating vengeance. |
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The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds killed, is likely a portent of worse to come in a warming world. |
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The hurricane wreaked terrible damage on the east coast, at Miami and the Florida Keys. |
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Look at the havoc that has been wreaked by unusually strong storms and freakish weather events all over the globe in recent years. |
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During the next few months, previously unequalled damage was wreaked upon the site. |
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The U.S. government is mindful of the risks of this trade, knowing the havoc wreaked by other foreign insects, such as the gypsy moth. |
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At first, it seemed she didn't have a chance, with a horrible cold that wreaked havoc with her voice. |
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Online lotteries, by their aggressive marketing techniques, had wreaked havoc on many families, especially those of daily-wage earners. |
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On the heels of the longest bull run in history, last year's down market wreaked havoc at many financial services firms. |
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The adverse weather has wreaked havoc with many of the non-national routes and damage has run into hundreds of thousands of pounds. |
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We need to help consumers leap-frog the illegal downloading issues that have wreaked havoc on the music industry. |
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He talked to her as the machines worked, repairing the damage that his blast had wreaked. |
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The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country. |
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Then in injury time, Miller's searching header back across a crowded area wreaked momentary havoc. |
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On that fateful night a disastrous landslide wreaked havoc on their scenic community. |
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Almost a year has passed since one of the worst landslides recorded in Scotland wreaked devastation at Glen Ogle, near Stirling. |
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Delta wreaked havoc in popular holiday destination islands, killing seven people and leaving a trail of mass destruction. |
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The havoc being wreaked on our streets and in homes by the demon drink was graphically captured. |
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While the tidal waves wreaked havoc, the death toll from epidemics caused by diseases such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid could be far higher. |
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The novel is a tale of vengeance wreaked by one jealous twin on her sister across decades, cities and continents. |
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However, the tight monetary policy wreaked havoc on the corporate sector, and by June 1980 it moved away to an expansionary policy stance. |
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According to witnesses, the interlopers wreaked havoc at the packed discussion, interrupted, attacked and screamed like banshees. |
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Air attacks wreaked havoc on German road and rail communications, though in such a way that the invasion sector was not especially favoured. |
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As the British and their allied Indian troops lost and withdrew, George Washington advanced and wreaked havoc on Iroquois settlements. |
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Increased snow and ice melt have caused higher rivers while thawing permafrost has wreaked havoc with roads and other infrastructure. |
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Even when heavy rain wreaked havoc with some of the street decorations on Coronation eve, street party organisers were undaunted. |
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Their incendiary performance culminated in the title track and primed the audience for the havoc yet to be wreaked. |
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That every child has the right to a family seems unquestionable when you consider the havoc wreaked on those who spend their lives as part of a social worker's caseload. |
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Her request for help was turned down as the others, back in the residence tents, were also contending with the havoc being wreaked. |
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The big freeze has wreaked havoc with the fourth round of the Scottish Cup. |
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I can imagine picking up a nest of birdlings to raise in hopes of their survival from the devastation and blight that is being wreaked upon their surroundings. |
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Whatever the mechanism, the Alvarezes' discovery wreaked havoc with the uniformitarian idea of extinction. |
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The British loss has been often overlooked because of the havoc wreaked on the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbour, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, three days earlier. |
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It is quintessentially the place, ground zero, for what NAFTA has wreaked upon the Canadian economy. |
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Indeed, the devastation wreaked by those conflicts is writ large on the destroyed cities and infrastructure of affected countries. |
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Not since the bubonic plague of the 14th century has a single pathogen wreaked such havoc. |
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A massive clean-up operation is continuing in many parts of the city after Hallowe'en bonfires wreaked havoc in a number of green areas on Sunday night. |
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For many, Easington is shorthand for the devastation wreaked by Thatcher on whole industries and communities. |
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If he returns to Sierra Leone, where Ebola has wreaked havoc, he will have little opportunity to continue his sprinting. |
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The impact of the crisis was the peacetime equivalent of the devastation wreaked on public sector finances by war itself. |
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Once again, the government has wreaked havoc on civilians with a campaign of indiscriminate bombing from the air. |
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This campaign wreaked havoc, with tremendous human and economic damage throughout China. |
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Natural disasters have wreaked havoc, as with the impact of Hurricane Mitch in Central America and earthquakes in Turkey. |
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This year's conference will be held against the backdrop of a financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the continent. |
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These crises, regardless of their origin, have all wreaked havoc on middle-income countries. |
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In 2007, some 25 million people were affected by a rash of flooding and devastation wreaked by Cyclone Sidr. |
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That is, epizootics, such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, repeatedly have wreaked economic havoc without making people sick. |
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Over the next decade, the RETs wreaked havoc on the ecosystem, eating ducklings, small water birds, and other amphibians. |
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However Kerry held all the aces and, once the ball was transferred quickly to the forward line, they wreaked havoc with some great movement and clinical finishing. |
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Rich salt-mines created a town not only of great substance but also of great wobbliness, as the saltworks wreaked architectural havoc for over 1100 years. |
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When confronted with food concerns, from pesticide residues to the environmental damage wreaked by salmon farming, the government doesn't want to know. |
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But when the first human settlers, the Maoris, arrived about a thousand years ago, the rats and dogs they brought with them wreaked havoc on the islands' wildlife. |
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Rains in February wreaked havoc over large areas of the southern region of the North Island, costing millions of dollars and more than 1,000 head of cattle. |
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Residents across county Carlow woke yesterday morning to find roads completely impassable, as drifting snow wreaked havoc on routes across the region. |
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Whoever praised Frederick within the borders of his realm did so from necessity, to evade the indignation of a prince who wreaked stern vengeance upon every foe. |
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In the later stages of the war, the American-made Stinger missile was introduced and wreaked havoc among the Soviet helicopters. |
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The man who wreaked violence on Marlene's home right throughout her youth was not her biological father but her mother met him when she was still just a young child. |
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Still others assert that Norwegian Vikings, who wreaked havoc on the coasts of Europe and beyond from the 8th to the 10th centuries, kept forest cats as mousers and pets. |
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The working classes were most affected by infant mortality, but it also wreaked havoc in the wealthier classes. |
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Boring from within, they have wreaked far greater damage on Washington than any Confederate victories. |
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God only knows what kind of havoc he would have wreaked had he kept shimmying his way up the political pole. |
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After all, they say, it was the Northern states that once wreaked havoc and destruction on Louisiana during the Civil War. |
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Will it have passed like the Great Plague, the Black Death, syphilis, and other conditions that have wreaked havoc on humanity and then disappeared? |
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Britons have not forgotten the mad cow disease crisis that wreaked havoc. |
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People are protesting that Northern governments have chosen to reinvest in the International Monetary Fund whose lending policies have wreaked havoc on Southern economies. |
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In the preceding year the tsunami wreaked havoc in parts of Asia. |
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In the cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone, some of the atrocities wreaked upon innocent civilians, have ranked these conflicts as some of the most brutal in modern day history. |
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Later, as the phylloxera epidemic wreaked havoc in Bordeaux's winegrowing area, the widow Mrs Caroline Ponsot published, in 1891, the results of her research in a book devoted to her experience of growing American vines. |
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They took away the feeling we had in Canada that no matter what havoc was wreaked abroad, here in Canada and in North America we had nothing to fear, we were safe. |
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Coming as it did on the heels of Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna, which wreaked havoc across Haiti, Ike was the last straw for many in this impoverished nation. |
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It is our duty to vitalize that will in order to restore calm, mutual understanding and tolerance wherever lack of understanding and intolerance have wreaked havoc. |
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Tea Party zombies, thrilled with the dark destruction they have wreaked on the planet, continue to maraud around the Hill, eager to chomp on humanity some more. |
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On island ecosystems created by other hydrological projects, those sorts of pressures have wreaked both immediate and long-term devastation. |
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In Canada, the recession wreaked less havoc than in the united States. |
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And not only that, but the African humidity had wreaked havoc on her hair. |
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Thoronka also revealed his feelings at discovering the devastation Ebola has wreaked on his family back home, who had adopted him after the death of his birth parents. |
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Theprinciplesasserted then are still valid, as principles, but are now somewhat outdated in many countries where the free market economic juggernaut has already wreaked its havoc in the public sector. |
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She wreaked of liquor. She also wreaked of anger, despair and unsatisfied sexuality, all mixed together. |
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His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wreaked havoc in the quiet surroundings. |
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Slavery wreaked havoc in the interior, with states initiating wars of conquest for captives. |
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They wreaked havoc in Northumbria and Mercia and the rest of Anglia before being halted by Wessex. |
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In turn, the droughts, floods and cyclones wrought by climate change have wreaked havoc on Africa's predominantly agricultural economy, further threatening African peoples' livelihoods and access to food. |
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The narcoterrorism that wreaked havoc in its northern and border cities has quieted down, enabling its labor arbitrage benefits to once again grab corporate attention. |
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Long decades of gravel exploration and exploitation operations at Alliyah Nature Reserve have wreaked havoc on environment and desert ecology there, he lamented. |
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Predator first struck in 1987 when Arnold Schwarzenegger first met the invisibility-cloaked extra-terrestrial warrior who wreaked havoc in the jungle. |
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Catch-22 proposes to take Asian carp, an invasive fish that has wreaked havoc with native species in the Mississippi River basin, and turn them into liquid organic fertilizer. |
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