1.   It decimates families and causes lifelong disabilities.

2.   The newcomers will be mostly women and children whose families have been decimated by the Serbian campaign to redraw the ethnic map of Kosovo through violence.

3.   After watching his family decimated, Massika and some other relatives were forced to flee from their village of Epassendje in northeastern Gabon.

4.   Szpilman, whose family was decimated at Treblinka, survived to return to his old job at Polish radio, and to become a famous composer.

5.   The family has been decimated by the settling of Mafia scores.