11.   The result was a hideous bloodletting, leaving a South that would be generations recovering from the economic devastation it brought on itself.

12.   While continuing to ration bread after five years of economic devastation, the authorities are spending more generously on circus.

13.   Both leaders took the nation from the mountain-top of expectation to the depths of economic devastation.

14.   But he is counting on support from ordinary Serbs who are weary of the war and the economic devastation it has brought.

15.   Frequent gun battles between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops have contributed to the economic devastation, damaging property and scaring visitors away from the ancient city.

16.   The bombing and the fighting unleashed by the U.S. intervention killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians and caused economic devastation.

17.   There are special prayers for relief from the economic devastation wrought by the international blockade.

18.   This southern African nation has been torn by economic devastation and two years of political violence blamed on the ruling party.

19.   Veteran U.S. envoy Vernon Walters, who accompanied Marshall to Europe to discuss the plan, remembers the economic devastation.

20.   -- They agree that North Korea, widely rumoured to be on the brink of economic devastation, must not suffer brutal collapse.