1.   Advocates for welfare recipients said the cuts would take a devastating human toll and predicted they would lead to increases in hunger, crime and homelessness.

2.   Everyone talks about the devastating toll of drugs.

3.   Injuries have taken a devastating toll on England, leaving coach Sven-Goran Eriksson to employ several inexperienced players who were clearly outmatched.

4.   It was the most devastating toll for any U.S. carrier in seven years, and its cause is still a mystery.

5.   The destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, with its devastating toll of death and injury, falls into that realm.

6.   The inevitable ennui of institutionalizing a revolutionary idea has taken a devastating toll.

7.   The study was encouraging in the wake of statistics showing the devastating toll weak bones can take on women after menopause.

8.   Trying to absorb the devastating toll of the boat crash that had killed two Cleveland Indians pitchers and seriously injured a third.

9.   Before the ceremony, mourners expressed anger and bewilderment at the devastating toll on Kenya for what presumably was an act of political terrorism against the United States.

10.   However the war has taken a devastating toll.