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Instead, despite the horror that he wreaked, the paradox remains that he seems like a blank-faced killer out of a Norwegian novel.

A tragic earthquake and a steroidal yen have wreaked havoc on the bottom lines of major firms Honda and Toyota.

She felt "seized with a sense of mission, a duty to bear witness to the havoc wreaked by war on the lives of the innocents. "

The next page started with a misunderstanding, then gossip sprouted its ugly head and wreaked havoc on my storyline.

Yet it is only when the dust settles on this conflict that the full extent of the damage wreaked will become evident.

Still, he said a collapse of AIG would have wreaked havoc on the global economy.

It turned out to be bankers rather than computer glitches that wreaked havoc.

NEXT month Liberia is due to go to the polls, almost exactly eight years after the end of a civil war that wreaked havoc across the country.

The storm wreaked havoc on the garden , uprooting several trees .

The protectionist lobbies that have wreaked havoc during past economic downturns are weaker or more ambivalent this time round.

Diane's dishonesty wreaked havoc on her friendship with Julia.

But it has wreaked havoc on traditional family life, with women and old people left behind to fend for themselves.

Residents returned to Galveston , on the Texas coast, and saw for themselves the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Ike.

Any immediate destruction wreaked by a near-earth burst comes from pulverizing shock waves, violent winds and hellish heat.

Flooding had already wreaked havoc by the time he arrived at a hill across from the house.

Unlike the (thankfully) temporary havoc wreaked by Irene, the changes brought about by the latest crisis are structural.

"To rebel is justified! " they proclaimed. They rebelled against everything and wreaked havoc everywhere.

As the Philippines struggles to address the damage wreaked by Tropical Storm Ketsana, a political storm is also brewing.

All through the late summer and early fall, destructively heavy rains have wreaked havoc on southeast Asia.

But the scientists also said destruction of human habitats wreaked by climate change brought on by human activities is a growing danger.

The Depression wreaked enormous damage across the globe, but most of all on America's economic psyche.

The week-long airport siege cut off Bangkok's air links and wreaked havoc on Thailand's tourism industry and export-dependent economy.

SOONER or later, America will suffer an earthquake as devastating as the one that has wreaked havoc on northern Japan.

The storm wreaked a havoc on the city. Roads were flooded and traffic came to a stop.

Some have saved billions of lives, wreaked environmental havoc or made the world a more colourful place.

But these words highlight the very personal havoc the Lewinsky affair wreaked on the First Family.

Now think of this farce is really a gross American insurgents wreaked havoc with the people.

It goes without saying that Libya's civil war has wreaked havoc on its economy.

It started in a sparsely inhabited area but soon found its way to the cities, where it wreaked havoc.

Commuters on Melbourne's rail network face further delays this morning, following the wild weather that wreaked havoc yesterday.

He wreaked havoc with his family and his two wives and no day went by without some outburst or perceived slight.

While aftershocks from theearthquake continued, the tsunami wreaked the most damage.

The eurozone crisis has wreaked untold damage on the bloc's banking sector.

A third detachment wreaked havoc for three nights inside the Taj hotel.

Severe snowstorms wreaked havoc on traffic.

A major power failure wreaked havoc in New York last night.

In Afghanistan, parliament houses many of the warlords who have wreaked such havoc in the country.

Mines have wreaked havoc on the environment.

Severe snow storms wreaked havoc on traffic.

The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.

If so, that will hugely raise the economic damage wreaked by crisis, as yet more output is lost and more jobs are destroyed.

One year ago this Thursday, 10 gunmen wreaked havoc across Mumbai.

Typhoon York also wreaked havoc at sea.

In the late 1950s, the government under Chairman Mao Zedong imposed sweeping changes that wreaked economic havoc.