(n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
(n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
Example Sentences:
(1) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
(2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(4) The Financial Services Authority is meant to be the City's watchdog but "devastating" internal documents reveal it has secretly co-ordinated high-level lobbying strategies with the industry it is supposed to police.
(5) The government acknowledged it had been overwhelmed by the devastation from the deadliest quake in Nepal in over 80 years.
(6) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.
(7) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
(8) Newcastle United are “devastated” by their relegation from the Premier League, according to the club’s managing director Lee Charnley.
(9) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
(10) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
(11) Age UK believes McDonald's human rights have been breached and that there could be "extremely adverse and devastating consequences for many thousands of older people if other councils take similar decisions to save money".
(12) And then, as the Guardian revealed at the weekend, there is the potentially devastating effect of the boundary changes, which can’t really be brought in before an early election but will radically tilt the field by 2020.
(13) He said: "[That] could be devastating for the renewables industry.
(14) To say that the loss of BB King is devastating to the blues community is an understatement.
(15) 'Devastated' Peter Greste calls on Egypt's president to pardon trio Read more “It’s ironic that the conviction was for tarnishing Egypt’s reputation when ... this [case] is what’s tarnished Egypt’s image,” Clooney told BBC News.
(16) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
(17) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.
(18) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Met commissioner, said a report revealing the undercover officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence was “devastating” for Scotland Yard and “one of the worst days that I have seen as a police officer”.
(19) The case for halting British arms sales to Saudi Arabia has been evident, not only on moral grounds, since civilians started dying in the conflict devastating Yemen.
(20) Devastating neurologic complications can be avoided or alleviated in a great proportion of patients undergoing radiation therapy for cerebral metastases and spinal cord compression.
Executor
Definition:
(n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
(n.) An executioner.
(n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In other cases, family members have identified members of the police as the executors of these murders, killing women as retaliation for gang attacks on police officers.
(2) Leonie Gombrich, his granddaughter and literary executor, described his change of heart when we met last week in New York.
(3) Anthea Grant died earlier this year, and named her sons Patrick and Josh as the executors of her will.
(4) الرقة تذبح بصمت (@Raqqa_SL) 1- #Raqqa Leena Al-Qasem (35 years) executor was her son Ali Saqr (born 1995) a member of #ISIS .
(5) "When Sylvia died Ted knew that Olwyn hated her and he appointed her as the sole executor for her work.
(6) So it's unsurprising that, half a century on, the arguments about her burn with ever-greater fervour, as proven by the extraordinary battle conducted last week in the Guardian's books section between Plath's friend Elizabeth Sigmund and a characteristically combative Olwyn Hughes , Ted Hughes's sister and the literary executor of Plath's estate.
(7) It is the executor's responsibility to deal with the estate of the person who died; that is, everything they owned.
(8) For a calm executor of a gameplan and a formidably accurate goal-kicker, there is a point where Farrell and his senses part company, usually when defeat or a setback is looming and he cannot control his frustration.
(9) Savile had appointed National Westminster bank as executor of his will.
(10) When Spark died in Italy in 2006, Jardine became her heir and literary executor.
(11) As a result, there was indifference on the part of enterprises, indifference and inadequate organization of occupational health services as executors of the specific health care measures, and indulgence on the part of the court, inspecting services and other competent bodies.
(12) In her art, Fay, who is also the joint executor with her sister Bea, of Ballard's literary estate , is echoing the work of her father, whose protagonists are often engaged in a desperate search for meaning following some catastrophic event, and who have to adapt to a harsh new environment.
(13) Upon this region, proposed as the PS FINAL COMMON REGION, conveges rostral and caudal information making it the executor of all PS phenomena.
(14) The community outreach program (COP) is based at a large southern university, where the nursing care center serves as executor of the project.
(15) He also left a large unpaid tax bill and such a mess of rights issues around the use of his beats – many given out freely on CDs to friends before his death – that the executor of his estate (also his accountant) Arty Erk, had to take out an ad in Billboard in April 2008 requesting that people stop using his client's work.
(16) Nine months later the executor of the estate filed a $2 million malpractice suit against the defendant doctor and the defendant hospital for wrongful death.
(17) It was shown that only calmodulin and troponin C but not parvalbumin bind calcium ions with concomitant formation of hydrophobic sites that are responsible for interaction with the "executor enzymes".
(18) Also, the information mechanisms which link planners, executors and the 'clients', were examined.
(19) The same, stifling July heat does not reach the swanky air-conditioned rooms where the advocates and executors of India’s new industrial corridors are based.
(20) Three executors will now be tasked with winding up the estate and carrying out Mandela's wishes: Moseneke, George Bizos, a lawyer and friend of Mandela for 65 years, and Themba Sangoni, the chief judge in Eastern Cape province, where Mandela was born.