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Also please note that the entire area of devistation is as large as Great Britain.
Think Progress » Top FEMA Deputies Make Brown Look Qualified 2005
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She rattled off an entire litany of the costs: taxes, layoffs, economic devistation on the local economy.
Harry Teague’s (D, NM-02) situational opinion on global warming. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Our Government and the oil industrie MUST be honest to US THE PEOPLE about the devistation we are facing with this OIL $pill.
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I recently wrote of spouses fading away when devistation hits, like disease.
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I remember 9/11 very well, and I haven't forget that the Muslim terroists who enacted the devistation on our country were trained to fly our airlines by our instructors, and apparently they had squeaky clean background in order to receive their pilots 'license.
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I remember 9/11 very well, and I haven't forget that the Muslim terroists who enacted the devistation on our country were trained to fly our airlines by our instructors, and apparently they had squeaky clean background in order to receive their pilots 'license.
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The greatest devide of the 21st century was caused by, none other than, little men holding cameras and big men owning satalites. oh and we must not forget the editors whom only no how to boost ratings/sells by reporting on the negativity, devistation, and pure BS mainly.
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There are many, many attendees that have had abortions and wish to and do warn young people about the devistation their lives have faced due to their abortions.
An abortion foe says March for Life accomplishes little | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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With more than 50 years of negligence by Essex County, shouldn't officials be calling in experts to analyse soil conditions of the reservation, since pollution and climate changes are contributing factors to the devistation?
To hunt or not to hunt?: The online debate over the South Mountain Reservation deer hunt Kelly Heyboer 2008
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Not worth the devistation to the reserve or the life that inhabits it.
vanishedone commented on the word devistation
I wonder whether the dictionary definitions should be fixed above the examples, to make it clear when a word is absent from our dictionaries even if it has respectable-looking usage examples. Not that this one does have a respectable-looking top example: '...im prod also to say my friens who i showed this wonderful seies to read the midnight sun draft and has been asking me to, too but i refuse because i can only imagine the devistation...'
November 18, 2009