Примеры употребления для DECIMATES
1. Equally insidious, a social crisis still decimates the nation‘s population, producing low birth rates, high mortality rates and very low life expectancy.
2. Wednesday‘s dismissal of Jawad‘s confession in U.S. custody decimates the government‘s case against the Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, according to the former prosecutor, who quit several weeks ago in a dispute over the handling of the case.
3. But can fair play be expected from a government that decimates its citizens in Darfur while claiming respect for resource–sharing agreements (oil, mostly) with its former enemies in the South?
4. "If it is not the responsibility of the national Red Cross to step in when a Category 4 hurricane decimates a major metropolitan area and overwhelms one of their local chapters, whose responsibility is it?" McCrery asked.
5. EU officials have said EU rules now do not provide for financial aid for poultry farmers in case bird flu decimates their stocks or prices drop due to falling public confidence as happened during the EU‘s mad cow scare in the 1''0s.