Sarah Palin, they were devastating.

How about devastating, horrifying, traumatizing?

Fiery impacts were frequent and often devastating.

It is this weapon of devastating accuracy and precision.

And the scene inside of this building was devastating and surreal.

Since phosphorus forms the backbone of DNA, its effects are devastating.

What was truly devastating to him was the loss of his power.

It was the continuing devastating war in the Congo and the indifference of the world.

Other parts of the world have been hit by storms in even more devastating ways.

The exact property of this cosmic energy is difficult to determine, but it can be devastating.

In the wrong light, the loss of the Voice of London could be devastating to our credibility.

Russians are able to name as brothers the very people whose country they're devastating and who they are slaughtering.

Russians are able to name as brothers the very people whose country they're devastating and who they are slaughtering.

According to a devastating report by Global Witness these stones are being used to purchase arms and finance civil war.

I mean it can be devastating, it can be revelatory, it can actually be quite funny, like my stupid Chinese character mistake.

This was the blitzkrieg , a devastating tactic combining quick movement of troops, tanks and massive use of air power to support infantry movements.

While we may think about tanks, airplanes and poison gas all of which made their debut in the First World War, the two most devastating technologies were American.

It may be that this revolt was so devastating, that it convinced the Abbasids, that large scale plantation style agriculture on the Roman model, just wasn't worth it.

Microbes deep down in the earth or deep in the ocean, like those that today gather around volcanic vents would have the best chance of surviving these devastating blows.

And we need it now, before there's a devastating attack or a terrorist incident that causes nations of the world to rush to adopt these weapons before thinking through the consequences.

'He came in at last but I believe it was mostly the rain that did it it was falling just then with a devastating violence which quieted down gradually while we talked.

In that exact same period that we've been using these drones with devastating accuracy, the number of attacks, of suicide attacks and terrorist attacks, against American forces in Afghanistan has increased tenfold.

I, like most of you, was sitting down, the day after Christmas in 2004, when I was watching the devastating news of the Asian tsunami as it rolled in, playing out on TV.

Could it be a devastating question, a question that was framed for me by Nicholas Negroponte could it be that we are heading towards or maybe in a future where knowing is obsolete?

What we really want to do is to bring the audience in and to make people feel for the first time what it's like to live with this devastating illness. It's just beyond any words.

Now what is noteworthy There are many noteworthy things in World War I. And, obviously, we can't cover all of them. is just what a devastating loss World War I was to the Serbian people.

Many of those factors are not well understood. For example, why is it that in the Pacific, of those hundreds of Pacific islands, why did Easter Island end up as the most devastating case of complete deforestation?

Before Russia even begins to get cold. So what I'm going to do here, to just understand how devastating this campaign ends up being to Napoleon, I'm going to use one of the most famous charts in the history of charts.

Yeah, it was devastating when we lost everything in that fire, but it's kind of nice sleeping out here under the stars, and it's a good thing you've got all that body fat to keep us warm. One of my favorite studies found that the more willing a husband is to do house work, the more attractive his wife will find him.