How To Use Havoc In A Sentence
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Also, that no man be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... and his body in prison at the king's will.
Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850
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Drought is wreaking havoc in the Thanjavur belt of Tamil Nadu.
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Props 1A-1F must be defeated, because they would wreak long-term havoc on the state.
Paul Hogarth: Arnold's May Special Election: Just Say No!
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Ten years of war, social revolution, and invasion have played havoc with the Kampuchean population.
Kampuchea: A Demographic Catastrophe
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Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries.
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Eight people have died in the past few days after snow, avalanches and freezing temperatures wreaked havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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A storm system raging across Western Europe continued to wreak havoc in the air and sea yesterday, bringing down an Italian helicopter and sinking an Italian cargo ship loaded with chemicals.
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A scrunchy havoc of whip, sleigh bells, saxophones, bass guitar, as well as the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Nibelung note of a household hammer for good measure, bashed, danced and whirled through this 15-minute non-stop toccata.
BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet
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They play a vital role in the food chain by eating aphids, which can cause havoc to crops.
The Sun
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Charles the Bald could warn or punish by leaving a trail of havoc along his line of march.
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Heavy rains and rising water are wreaking havoc across Europe.
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she remained sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused
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Allowing the tiny twosome to wreak havoc is the Brazilian midfield minder, prone to fisticuffs and protective of the rearguard.
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Perhaps some kind of GPS tracking device installed subdermally in Havock and fed through to a continually updated map and threat assessment program?
Cheeseburger Gothic » Renovations to the Burger.
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The next day the broadsheets printed special editions with huge double-page spreads showing the havoc in Manhattan.
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There arose in that narrow, iron-sided gorge a havoc such as belike surpassed that of the original breaking through of the waters.
The Sagebrusher A Story of the West
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I anticipate the burning of our sea ports, havoc of our frontiers, household insurgency, with a long train of et ceteras, which is enough for a man to have met once in his life.
Letters
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Many types of aircraft were replicated in mock-up form including Spitfires, Hurricanes, Wellingtons, Whitleys, and Havocs.
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And they reckoned he may have been wreaking more havoc in Austria.
The Sun
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The disruptive behaviour of a small minority of pupils can wreak havoc in the classrooms and corridors.
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Multiple species windbreaks can be a habitat for owls, mopokes and other predatory birds which will eat the rats, mice and other vermin that cause havoc within an orchard.
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But the group insists that the size of the development is too large for the conservation area and would bring traffic havoc to already congested lanes.
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I tell this story in the context of this month's cover package on psychopathic bosses and the organizational havoc they wreak.
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These are two young bucks full of guile and cunning, mobile and versatile in the modern fashion and eager to wreak havoc with Dutch organisation.
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In this one, she's a scientist trying to deal with an enormous octopus wreaking havoc in San Francisco.
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But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad.
The Sun
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The furniture and fittings of my house were havocked by them.
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Surely the damp and cold must play havoc with his patched-together skeleton?
The Sun
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Rioters caused havoc in the centre of the town.
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Only Prosecution deters Federal Crimes by John H Kennedy on Sunday, Aug 9, 2009 at 4: 05: 13 PM crie havoc! by remo on Sunday, Aug 9, 2009 at 5: 12: 19 PM
Bush Tortured Children, and America Yawns
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Under cover of darkness, and armed with sackfuls of rubbish, he wreaks havoc on the tidy town's effort, dumping in areas which have recently been cleaned up by local environmentalists.
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Man-made destruction seems easier to understand and explain than indiscriminate natural havoc.
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The adverse weather has wreaked havoc with many of the non-national routes and damage has run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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It will spell war or wreak the havoc of one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rhinos … WHOLE FKN KINGDOM IS IN FEAR … and well it fkn should be, for death and chaos, shall decent upon his skanky arse, wreak HAVOCK and fkn RETRIBUTION in biblical fkn scales.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Brief note from Der Bünker.
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But what to do when heels wreak havoc on your lower back?
Times, Sunday Times
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Violent storms wreaked havoc on the French Riviera, leaving three people dead and dozens injured.
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Then the "chinooks" came with their warm winds that changed the snow-laden landscape into a quagmire of mud, water, and open stretches of road which raised all kinds of havoc with the metal cleats.
American Chronicle
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Mr Elliott said councillors were ‘upset’ that the youngsters seemed so intent on wreaking havoc.
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The weather played havoc with airline schedules.
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On the heels of the longest bull run in history, last year's down market wreaked havoc at many financial services firms.
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It appears that he slew also a notable dun cow, of a kind of mastodon breed, which prevailed in those early days, which was making great havoc in the neighborhood.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
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This is a critical feature on such an instrument, as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability.
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It plays havoc with school hols and thus with families.
Times, Sunday Times
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These policies have wreaked havoc on the British economy.
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With fatherlessness a growing problem, this failure wreaks havoc, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Times, Sunday Times
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A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad.
The Sun
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The plunging global economy is wreaking havoc with British exports.
The Sun
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Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality.
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That's a big body that can run around and kind of wreak havoc, and linebackers obviously tackle for a living," Childress said.
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But what to do when heels wreak havoc on your lower back?
Times, Sunday Times
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The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.
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| Reply | Permalink they should have to register several months ahead of time so that they can't game the dynamics ... if a republican wants to be permanently registered as a democrat in order to create havoc or vote for the "beatable" dem, then they will never have an opportunity to vote in the republican primary even when it is hotly contested like the dem primary is this year.
Republicans Turning Out In Ohio ��� For The Dem Primary
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The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.
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But in September of last year she received the disturbing text from her jilted ex telling her about the havoc he had wreaked at their home.
The Sun
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The BA source said the cumulative delays could play havoc with the airline's schedules.
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The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
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We need to help consumers leap-frog the illegal downloading issues that have wreaked havoc on the music industry.
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As soon as that, the four went off causing havoc around the city, stealing electricity from neon signs, streetlights, power boxes, and more.
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Hail, when it crashes through to the surface can cause much damage, to the level of havoc even.
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Meanwhile, Collins's case remains unsettled, and only chipping paint and crumbling steps indicate the havoc inside her house.
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It will spell war or wreak the havoc of one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Terrible havoc has been wrought in the neighbourhood of the sea front.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some alkaline solutions may neutralise it but it will play havoc with the base salts.
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So, why do hormones cause such havoc?
Times, Sunday Times
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Chaos struck Llandudno Hospital as the freak storm resulted in incredible scenes of havoc and distress.
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The local bourse did not open Wednesday for fear that investor panic in the wake of Tuesday's attacks would wreak havoc on the already depressed markets.
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It is already running at 99 per cent capacity, with the result that it can take only a tiny hiccup to cause havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead the next major strike undoubtedly will leverage another embedded asset in some other existing technostructures to raise havoc at home or abroad.
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The fictional plot centred around the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs despised by the police for causing havoc in the neighbourhood.
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Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction.
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As many workers know, the dreaded all-nighters can create havoc with family life, and anything that offers a chance to avoid camping out in the office is to be welcomed.
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And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Wet weather continues to play havoc with the sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps Mr. Mazzocco's inventive use of the English language is the source of the confusion, with his "irriguous" organ and "banausic" muse which go "havocking" about the western world.
Myra, Myron, & Gore
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It was not a simple one-on-one conflict between the forces of evil and the forces of liberation; it was violence against civilians, murder, necklacing, informers, bad police officers and units wreaking havoc within.
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It's about the havoc and chaos of the Restoration.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this latest chapter, the half-marketized banking sector has also opened its doors to new practices unheard of in China before, namely, "incentivized risk taking" and "leveraged platforms," with greater potential to wreak havoc.
The Seattle Times
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The fire havocked throughout the building.
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Pre-race nerves combined with the taper in your training can play havoc with the stomach.
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Still others assert that Norwegian Vikings, who wreaked havoc on the coasts of Europe and beyond from the 8th to the 10th centuries, kept forest cats as mousers and pets.
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Like the Hermit, the Shepherd makes havock amongst the King's game; but by means of a sling, not of a bow; like the Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the sign and countersign being Passelodion and Berafriend.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Glaciers can move and calving can occur, causing huge icebergs to break away and wreak havoc.
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They retain an eerie, anthropomorphic sense of presentness; faceless, eyeless, even, bodyless—Smith plays havoc with familiar proportions and divisions—they nonetheless seem to confront us and fix us with their invisible gaze.
The Artist in All His Dimensions
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A damp and cold New England morning seemed to be wreaking havoc on everyone's tuning — you know you're at an early-music concert when the pianist is pulling out a wrench to tune between movements.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The new tax could wreak havoc among smaller companies.
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“GPS tracking device installed subdermally in Havock”… it wouldn’t take much more electronics to add an electric shock control that we could initiate from your web page.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Renovations to the Burger.
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Simple objects speak eloquently of the havoc wrought.
Times, Sunday Times
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But ironically when the police did turn out during the London riots they were accused of standing by and letting people wreak havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the group insists that the size of the development is too large for the conservation area and would bring traffic havoc to already congested lanes.
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Their aim was to unleash m havoc on polite society with their provocative clothes and aggressive attitude.
The Sun
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They said that hooligans from the city took advantage of the chaos to wreak havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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If action is taken, it will take the form of CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), in which attendants snarl airline schedules and operations with intermittent sick-outs and other measures.
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Meanwhile tourism and fishing have wreaked havoc with the marine environment.
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At that moment a shot struck the cill of the port nearest to the spot where Owen was seated, killing one man and wounding another, then flying across the deck close to Mr Ashurst, it committed further havoc on the other side, laying low another of the crew.
Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea
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Keep up your spirits, dear Peggy," said Nell, in that sweet, cosy tone -- if we may say so -- which played such havoc in Bob's bosom at the time when she was known as the coxswain's bride.
The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
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Yet the Eighties revival that has swept its pestilential way through womenswear for years continues to wreak eye-watering havoc on the way the other side accoutres itself.
Top stories from Times Online
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Delta wreaked havoc in popular holiday destination islands, killing seven people and leaving a trail of mass destruction.
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Perhaps consuming an ice-cream with a Marmite sandwich might bring together a deadly combination of cow, wheat and yeast genes that will wreck genetic havoc in your gut.
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So he wrecks his highball havoc all over D.C. because an arms deal dealt him out of the dinero.
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World War Two wreaked havoc on our eating habits.
The Sun
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These policies have wreaked havoc on the British economy.
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He said a gang of about 30 teenagers have been causing havoc for the past six months.
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With a little bit of knowledge of code coupled with cunningness, a hacker can cause havoc to the users of these phones, whether it is blackberry or iPhone or Windows Mobile.
The flip side of using Smart Phones
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Only a minority of people will discard bags full with rubbish in the Lane, but that minority is still numerically big enough to cause environmental havoc.
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Perhaps one day we will sail our boats up the Thames or take our boats on trailers into the centre of London and cause havoc the way the French do.
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Their aim was to unleash m havoc on polite society with their provocative clothes and aggressive attitude.
The Sun
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Phase change causes the locusts to swarm over vegetation, behavior that has wreaked havoc on crops in Africa and the Middle East for centuries.
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They also play havoc with IP transmissions by disrupting the acknowledgement process.
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I don't understand how people can be so cruel and unfeeling as to create havoc and distress in another person's life based on nothing but innuendos and rumors.
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The vile, disgusting messages from the stalker played havoc with our lives.
The Sun
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Seeing him wreak such havoc among a supposedly invincible foe, the Elves within the shrine were heartened.
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If PMT is playing havoc with your life, remember that food can relieve such symptoms as mood changes, bloating, fluid retention and pain.
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As driving rain and wind played havoc with both teams' attacking play in the second period, the game deteriorated into a succession of handling errors.
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He warned that high wind speeds could wreak havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gerald of Wales' Monmouth archers in 1190 could have played havoc with mail-clad knights and horses using bows and archers that were a lot less powerful than the armour-piercing longbow of Agincourt or the Mary Rose.
Bowmen in medieval Wales
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It felt great at the time but it's caused havoc.
The Sun
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The day is over when they can stay in our country and wreak havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new tax could wreak havoc among smaller companies.
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suing an Ars Technica writer without cause, losing multiple times on "fair use" claims, having its bank accounts seized and its domain name auctioned off, Righthaven is no longer in any position to wreak havoc.
Ars Technica
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So if Havock makes a tent in the doona whenever Caitlin is dispatching villains, Beeso got a hint of anti-green on the back of his palate and I wallowed in The Kippers angst I think that says a great deal about the quality of the writing.
Cheeseburger Gothic » First Discussion thread for After America.
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Mixed summer weather plays havoc with wine selection.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, has started to wreak havoc on honeybee colonies.
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In mutant form, superbugs can wreak havoc in hospitals and rest homes, infecting open wounds and forcing the closure of wards and operating theatres.
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Some of those little nasties found innocent of producing havoc in the immune system were: low ferritin concentrations and elevated uric acid and phosphokinase and cortisol levels.
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Profit warnings and project delays have wreaked havoc on the share price.
Times, Sunday Times
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Few measures have wrought such political havoc in so short a time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The topic was moles and how to get rid of the pesky creatures which cause havoc in fields and gardens - humanely of course.
The Sun
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Given the environmental havoc wreaked by the Three Gorges Dam (the World Wildlife Fund calls the Yangtze the world's "river most at risk" due to excessive damming), the stump is a potent -- though unintended -- reminder of the costs of China's rise.
THE RIVER TELLS ITS STORY
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Added to that, driverless cars could be hijacked, with the autonomous vehicles causing havoc.
The Sun
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This causes havoc to the catalogue-based model of the oeuvre complete.
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The havoc which was wrought by these youths on American streets is all too obvious.
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Ecclesiastical historians will tell you that hair-splitting issues are the ones that cause havoc among the zealots.
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Few measures have wrought such political havoc in so short a time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country.
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The female characters are two-dimensional temptresses who do nothing but create lustful havoc.
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Guest appearances from Raekwon, Method Man, Havoc, KRS One, Redman and Keith Murray don't oversaturate the album and perfectly complement EPMD.
What's New In Dart's iPod #59 AKA Veterans Memorial Day
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As well as leaving the country rudderless, it's also playing havoc with office allocation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a few minutes the signs of German havoc would be hidden behind stacks of crockery and household utensils, and some of the pale women we had left in mournful contemplation of the ruins would be bargaining as sharply as ever for a sauce-pan or a butter-tub.
Fighting France
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The vile, disgusting messages from the stalker played havoc with our lives.
The Sun
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Packinghouse managers must ensure that the fruit they ship isn't harboring live lychee fruit moths or oriental fruit flies; such stowaways could wreak agricultural havoc.
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An erratically fluctuating power supply can wreak havoc on any system and may cause it to hang or shut down spontaneously.
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The Category 5 storm wreaked havoc, doing more than $20 billion in damage and making it by far the costliest hurricane ever in United States history.
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Even in the midst of apparent havoc, there was a place in which safety, healing, and communion could be celebrated and a doxology raised.
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It appears that the beast has escaped, and is again wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting residents of Bucharest.
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Look at the havoc that has been wreaked by unusually strong storms and freakish weather events all over the globe in recent years.
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Corruption is playing havoc with the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kids disappeared after school, rode bikes, messed about in home-made boats, fired shanghais and generally ‘created havoc’.
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My mother-in-law is mentally ill and wreaking havoc on our marriage.
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He and Mary have moved into a new bungalow on the farm and greenfly are playing havoc with Mary's roses.
Mistaken Identity
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The day is over when they can stay in our country and wreak havoc.
Times, Sunday Times
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THE coldest winter in 20 years will bring more weather havoc this week.
The Sun
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The trick is to stumble on one of these Aladdin's caves of fishing delight - and wreak havoc.
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The black striped mussel has caused millions of dollars worth of damage to marine industries around the world, and can cause havoc for shipping.
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The program searches a hard drive for aptly named files that are suffixed with. jpeg or. jpg, and may therefore falsely identify files and wreak havoc on the reputation of people with no connection to child pornography.
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It will spell war or wreak the havoc of one.
Times, Sunday Times
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The harsh weather conditions and the desert environment played havoc with our weapon systems as well as our personnel.
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Residents across county Carlow woke yesterday morning to find roads completely impassable, as drifting snow wreaked havoc on routes across the region.
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I've been briskly informed in a previous comment trail that it's "wreak" havoc and thus also chaos not wreck but other than that, what's not to love about this.
12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006
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But the Corinthian women's thunderstruck responses to their sister's havoc is an element integral to the play, a brake which slows and accentuates the impending tragedy.
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The winter inversion layer wrecks havoc on Greater Denver, especially places like Golden, Boulder and Jefferson County.
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And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc.
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With strong easterly winds, peat fires have wreaked havoc on Moscow this summer, prodding officials to revive an unfulfilled plan drafted after the 2002 fires to reflood the peat mines.
Russia Tussles Over How to Halt Fires
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Today it was the turn of Cathryn Fitzpatrick to wreak havoc with the bat.
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Brenden wants a two-year moratorium on relocating bison until state officials write a management plan for what he calls "woolly tanks" that can wreak havoc on crops and land.
The Seattle Times
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The visitors have been disrupted by floods that wreaked havoc in the town.
The Sun
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Things are tearing apart all over the places, bloody havoc is being committed, the planet's coming apart at the seams ... and this inspires hair-tearing and chest-beating and rending of garments across the land?
And now it's no more Open Source Boobs, it's the Miley Cyrus In A Bedsheet Show!
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Laughter peals through Taipei's Great Tranquility Park as the play's hero, the deliciously impish King Monkey, contorts his face with mirthful delight at the havoc he has inspired.
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Simple objects speak eloquently of the havoc wrought.
Times, Sunday Times
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I tend to serve it in cups - soup bowls play havoc with the dishwasher.
The Sun
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The plunging global economy is wreaking havoc with British exports.
The Sun
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A UK aquarium discovered a 4-foot polychaete worm that was wreaking havoc on one display.
Big Sea Worm
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Indeed, at his death, Borrow was what he now is, and what he will continue to be long after Time has played havoc with nine-tenths of the writers whose names are week by week, and day by day, "paragraphed" in the papers as "literary celebrities" -- an English classic.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
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The earthquake caused terrible havoc.
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I can picture Havock at his computer, beer in one hand durry in the other, yelling at the screen.
Cheeseburger Gothic » First dictated blog post.
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A strike will cause havoc for commuters.
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If action is taken, it will take the form of CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), in which attendants snarl airline schedules and operations with intermittent sick-outs and other measures.
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This concentration of airborne firepower played havoc with the enemy forces.
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Mixed summer weather plays havoc with wine selection.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a host of other crewmen were injured as sudden gusts caused havoc during the racing off the Isle of Wight.
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A strike will cause havoc for commuters.
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If his beliefs caused havoc in his personal relationships he took complete responsibility for it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Profit warnings and project delays have wreaked havoc on the share price.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cyberpunk hackers, crackers, phreakers, cyphers, and cyberchic not only expose corporate crimes and misdemeanours, they also penetrate corporate and governmental computer systems and cause occasional havoc.
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Profit warnings and project delays have wreaked havoc on the share price.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a time when a flurry of snow and plummeting temperatures were not enough to play havoc with the fixture list.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clamor and outrage broke out and pandemonium reeked more havoc than anything else could.
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Cherry Blossoms, opressed serfs and Major Domo Havock instructing the younger bushido warriors.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Havsy’s cake shoppe.
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It ties up hours of airtime and is notoriously unpredictable, with early finishes and bad weather playing havoc with the tight schedules that the leading channels run.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, together, the anesthetic paralyzes the body and lets the poison reek havoc.
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Not only does it muck up your commute, the nippy weather can also wreak havoc with your skin.
The Sun
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The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
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Perhaps Mr. Mazzocco's inventive use of the English language is the source of the confusion, with his "irriguous" organ and "banausic" muse which go "havocking" about the western world.
Myra, Myron, & Gore
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Welding litigation may lack the sexiness of asbestos or tobacco, but the verdicts that he is aiming for could wreak financial havoc on the welding industry.
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All boats steamed ashore for shelter as the winds and sea caused havoc along the coast.
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Ivan tore through Grenada last year, wreaking havoc and taking with it lives, homes and livestock.
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With that, the fight broke loose, along with pure havoc and destruction.
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My parents gave me a small dog which I love dearly, but she has caused havoc by urinating on the lawn, staining it yellow.
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Should we really let hardliners such as this wreak economic havoc without basic checks?
Times, Sunday Times
