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In a series of devastating narrative accounts, survivor-heroes told their story about the terrible events of 1933-45.
Farm facilities had been devastated, and fields and pastures had gone unattended, all of which created an atmosphere of desperation.
Whereas the northern and eastern industrial areas experienced feverish activity, southern and central agrarian regions were devastated by depression, unemployment, and endemic poverty.
The rebels enjoyed some significant early victories, but after a series of devastating defeats the movement lost its momentum.
When first new drugs appear and spread in any society, there is a period of adaptation that can often be devastating.
Another lesson is that fast economic growth combined with inadequate government policies can be as devastating for the environment as overpopulation and intense poverty.
Only the great ports, devastated by the blockade, deviate from this pattern.
Would a democratic federation of peoples have been more resistant to dismemberment at the end of a long and devastating war ?
Ultimately, drug combinations that capitalise on more than one therapeutic strategy will constitute the most effective treatment for patients with these devastating illnesses.
In one case, a meeting was held to discuss possible withdrawal of aggressive treatment on a patient neurologically devastated due to head trauma.
The result of maternal emotional unavailability can be devastating to the infant and can serve as a significant early life stress.
The loss of industry and public investment in these areas has been devastating and economic opportunity must be restored.
10 dialogue from his favorite films or handily drop a line from one of them, to devastating or hilarious effect.
His father, stepmother, and brothers were devastated by his drastic change of condition and feared for his life.
Both are devastated and strongly suspect that their friends will know the reason why they will not be carrying out their much-discussed plans.
Ultimately, this young woman manifests the devastating combination of genetic risk factors, possible in utero drug0alcohol exposure, and severe trauma as a young child.
Once the new supply had stabilized, and had filtered into the interior, its effect on bead money was devastating.
Along the way we are treated to some devastating barbs.
People began to make anxious comparisons with the devastating 1896 rinderpest epidemic.
Though the immediate impact was devastating, the regional economy seemed to have recovered rapidly.
She reported feeling ' devastated ' when ill health forced her to leave.
He concludes that research areas that exist in the ' intellectual equivalent of solitary confinement ... are devastating to the research vigor of comparative communication ...' (p. 653).
Investigating signaling mechanisms in microglia might lead to more effective management of devastating chronic pain.
Within a few years, most aboriginal towns were devastated by poverty and lack of sustainable production.
Especially for those with lengthy histories of association with a community, expulsion from their homes can be devastating.
The effect of their rebellion on their oppressors is likewise devastating.
The faults and oversights she points to as she sifts through the arguments exchanged in the past are devastating.
Droughts are fairly common today, and they often have devastating effects on local populations.
The devastating famine of 1769-1770 was the clearest evidence of this.
What is the possibility that these devastating droughts were driven by volcanic eruptions?
Potential devastating effects of conflict of interest may result if bioethics becomes too closely aligned with business.
Such internalization of stigma may have devastating consequences for the person with mental disorder.
We soon counted hundreds of villages devastated like this.
Plant pathogens are quite destructive to cash crops throughout the world, resulting in potentially devastating financial losses.
The media also ignored the situation of families of patients with devastating brain stem injuries.
Hopefully, the identification of the pathogenic species will motivate drug discovery efforts aimed at treating the neurodegenerative processes that underlie these devastating diseases.
Initially, the plan envisaged a devastating blow against parliament in session, followed by rebellion.
Damage from one pest may be minimal one year and devastating the next.
Political responses have been uneven, and in the aggregate, less than the devastating problems warrant.
Two signatures in a private home there ended a conflict that had devastated the country.
The combination of reckless lending, deteriorating business conditions, and ballooning foreign debt obligations was devastating.
All the alleged demonstrations of the phenomenon have been followed by devastating criticism from skeptics.
Conversely, the price paid for late or wrong decisions can be devastating.
Teachers, students and parents throughout the country accurately foresaw how devastating the new ' productionist ' reforms might be for rural youths' general educational prospects.
Enfranchised classes were affected but hardly devastated by downturns.
Plant diseases are destructive to cash crops throughout the world, resulting in potentially devastating financial losses.
As a result, it angered and devastated parents.
They were also subject to devastating diseases brought to them by visitors from other places.
An evaluation of the devastating quarrels between the leaders is also not overlooked.
In particular, it was devastating in its use of the traditional stereotypes of immorality and subversion associated with medieval heretics.
He is absolutely right + the invention was devastating in its impact.
As our knowledge of the molecular basis o f this devastating disease expands, further options for gene therapy of this disease will doubtless present themselves.
Following the devastating 1994 currency crisis, devaluation and recession compounded the problems of the poorly regulated banking system.
How devastating would a smallpox attack really be ?
The development of new modulators of glutamatergic neurotransmission might lead to improved therapeutics to treat these devastating mood disorders.
Astrogliosis occurs in a variety of neuropathological disorders and injuries, and excessive astrogliosis can be devastating to the recovery of neuronal function.
The current postwar era has been marked by devastating economic and socio-political instability.
Floods have devastating effects on the infrastructural services of the country, especially communications.
Spondylitis may be complicated by potentially devastating neurological defects that must be considered carefully in endemic areas [29, 30].
Destructive historical events are often accorded a mythic status, as in musical accounts of devastating floods and boll weevil infestations.
His sometimes devastating insight was coupled with unstinting loyalty and unselfishness.
Estimates for the devastating illness of schizophrenia are comparable at $295,000 (2).
Also, there were two major forest fires in 1923 and 1971, which again devastated the remnant natural forests.
The courageous display of open, personal feeling in this shattering movement left the audience both devastated and palpably moved.
From my point of view, no movement can be tolerated which begins with devastating the earth's surface.
He laments the failure of the new model to deliver on promises for growth and speaks to the problems created by weak economic institutions, international vulnerability, and devastating poverty.
Frequently the radiographers have been the first healthcare professionals that the patient encounters after the devastating news of disease recurrence, progression, or even initial diagnosis has been broken.
The two organisations, whose relationship had previously been murky, began to synchronise their military activities against the government forces by 1988, perhaps earlier, to devastating effect.
The four pulses of devastating drought were centered on 760, 810, 860, and 910, although the 760 pulse, while serious, was not quite as severe as the other three.
In the event of intracranial hemorrhage with involvement of most of the cerebral cortex when accompanied by devastating neurologic findings, withdrawal of life support is discussed.
Previous studies show that new potentially more virulent mastitis pathogens that enter a dairy herd have the potential to cause an outbreak that could be financially devastating [3, 6].
The double defect of aberrant migration and an excess of neurons due to failure of normal apoptosis would be devastating to minicolumn circuit formation and function.
As we move toward the creation of a networked health information environment, the potential of privacy intrusions increases, with potentially devastating impact on quality and access to healthcare.
We then have an account of biological changes when devastated areas, with or without efforts to ameliorate the conditions, are studied over a period of years.
In particular during the oil crises of the 1970s and early 1980s, some countries saw their economies devastated by inflation although some escaped serious economic harm.
Similarly, increased human population size, consumption of resources, technological innovation and mobility can engender pest outbreaks, including the spread of devastating human diseases, linking ecological and health factors intimately.
In view of the circulatory equilibrium provided by his collateral circulation, no surgical treatment was advised, although the combination oflesions may lead to devastating hemoptysis in the future.
Finally, in 1945, the city was struck by two devastating raids which caused huge destruction and brought the city administration and economy to an effective standstill.
The war had devastated the country.
If the child did proceed in this way, her nascent grammar would very quickly be devastated by the rejection of structures mistakenly identified as being in conflict with adult forms.
The negative effect may capture the dramatic increase in the ability of portfolio investments to move quickly among countries, which at times leads to financial collapse and devastating socio-political outcomes.
On the other hand, there might be something uniquely devastating about losing a loved one to forces outside the bounds of our mortal comprehension or control.
Failure of myelin repair is a major cause of clinical deterioration in a number of devastating neurological diseases, of which the most prominent is multiple sclerosis.
The armed forces had been devastated by the revolutionary uprising in late 1978 and early 1979, when an estimated 60 percent of its personnel deser ted.
The same insects that transmit these devastating human parasites often possess a diversity of mutualistic and parasitic bacterial endosymbionts.
Indeed, there is a neat but devastating symmetry to the situation.
Damage to these crops can be economically devastating.
Although schizophrenia has been studied for close to a century, the etiology of this devastating illness remains shrouded in mystery.
The only patients eligible for inclusion were patients who had suffered a documented, devastating brain stem injury.
We dreaded poliomyelitis and similar devastating acute, rapidly fatal illnesses.
Choreoathetosis is an enigmatic and sometimes devastating complication which has been described following cardiac surgery using bypass both with and without circulatory arrest.
However, it might indicate one last, devastating catastrophe in 909-910 or, of course, shortly thereafter.
Slowly, in spite of lean years, devastating famines were passing away.
He identifies the bathyal region of the oceans as the main recruiting zone for repopulation of the devastated shelf environments.
In human terms the economic collapse was devastating.
Many infertile couples see their problem as a major life crisis, and feel devastated and powerless.
The 1890s were a period of devastating drought and epidemic, triggering a surge of raiding to reconstitute the herds.
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