After the devastation of Europe, the only suitable place in 1945 appeared to be the United States.
Fade to black. And then fade up: the player recovers control of their avatar, and can crawl out of the debris, only to see devastation, and die.
Following the widespread devastation among the city's buildings, local prosecutors have opened a file for "unintentional manslaughter" against unknown offenders, seeking to punish those responsible.
Floodwaters also spread west into Balochistan, causing devastation there, as well.
Residents returned to Galveston , on the Texas coast, and saw for themselves the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Ike.
The devastation wrought by the great recession is still all too real for millions of Americans who lost their jobs, businesses and homes.
The last time his town was hit by such devastation was in 1929, but even then, the extent of flooding was much lighter, nothing like that seen this summer, he insists.
Natural disasters or stories of other types of devastation can be personalized in the same manner.
But for many millions of people the devastation caused by changing seasonal patterns and unpredictable weather is already a clear and present danger.
Avian flu, the appetite for clean energy and the devastation of natural disasters know no borders.
Though Friday's tsunami caused tremendous devastation in northern Japan, its impact elsewhere appears to have been modest.
Yet despite this devastation in a big production centre, the local economy recovered very fast.
Survivors spoke of the devastation wrought by the storm in Hsiao-lin village, in Kaohsiung county, which was buried under a massive mudslide on Sunday, after 200 inhabitants were found alive today.
It's impossible to assess exactly how much devastation one single diamond could have caused before it was cut, polished, set and sold at a high-end retailer.
Thanks to ecological devastation, the wilderness is shrinking.
Qu Yuan in the long journey of exile, the spirit and life suffered devastation and suffering is imagined.
Behind these questions is for me a practical concern with the relentless devastation of the natural world.