Back on May 11, FIFA president Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the vote-selling scandal that has devastated world football and its governing body had to be resolved in time for the June 1 presidential election.
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Even the more recent New Century Evangelion, which he sees primarily as a metaphor for teenage confusion, is set in a world devastated by attacks from a mysterious alien force.
The film stars octogenarian French acting greats Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a loving Parisian couple whose world is devastated by the wife's serious illness.
Amazingly, the International Monetary Fund, whose malpractice has devastated much of the world, got more money out of the U.S. Where are those trial lawyers when you really need them?
World War II-devastated nations from Europe to Asia returned to prosperity, with the defeated ravaged nations of Germany and Japan becoming economic superpowers.
The 68-year-old says his life has been devastated by the News of the World story and the posting of the video footage on its website.
Located in north-east Japan, the 12th-century site, representing the Buddhist Pure Land gained its world heritage status three months after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the surrounding region.
The world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev, himself an Ossetian, gave a concert in the devastated South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali with his home orchestra, the Mariinsky of St Petersburg.
Once the poster child for urban despair, New Orleans may develop a blueprint for turning a devastated region into a role model not only for other American cities but for struggling urban regions around the world.
Helping the nations devastated by last week's South Asian disaster stay off this track will be the real test of the world's charity in the long term.
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