estrago
ravages ; decimation ; shattering ; mayhem ; havoc.
Problems faced maybe entirely new ones, such as protecting the library's stock from the ravages of climate or of insects.
Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.
Its shooting stabs of pain, its yelps of despair, its tears, its emotional zigzagging, all bear testimony to such a shattering.
Ten days after the mayhem in Detroit, a riot rocked Harlem, triggered by a rumor that a white policeman had shot and killed a black soldier.
However, protests are happening all over the world, especially after the havoc in the Gulf of Mexico.
causar estragos
wreak + havoc
ravage
run + amok
cause + havoc
create + havoc
play + havoc with
I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.
The rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged this country's cultural heritage.
Term paper fraud runs amok on the Web as dozens of fee and free sites have thousands of term papers available for lazy and unprincipled students.
It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.
Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.
To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.
estragos
destruction
In the event of a serious accident (a fire, deliberate destruction, or a computer error) nothing will happen to the records vital to the operation of the library.
estragos de la enfermedad, los
ravages of disease, the
Vaccines are among the most effective weapons for protecting horses against the ravages of disease.
estragos de la guerra, los
ravages of war, the
The ravages of war devastated Afghanistan's infrastructure, breaking people away from their homes and from each other.
estragos del tiempo, los
ravages of time, the
Unused school buildings sit idle as ravages of time take toll.
hacer estragos
lay + waste to
create + havoc
wreak + havoc
cause + havoc
take + Posesivo + toll (on)
The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.
I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.
It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.
The pressures which modern society puts on all its members are great and those pressures take their toll.
hacer estragos en
play + havoc with
To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.
ocasionar estragos
wreak + havoc
I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.
provocar estragos
create + havoc
wreak + havoc
cause + havoc
Power-hungry politicians are creating havoc everywhere.
I would, nonetheless, like to consider a common type of a change, which normally presents no problem under a manual system, but which could wreak havoc in an automated system.
It was found that someone had dumped a load of builders' rubble down a manhole blocking the sewer and causing havoc.
provocar estragos en
play + havoc with
To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.
