Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.

The most renowned of the dynasty's rulers was Mahmud of Ghazni, who consolidated control over the areas south of the Amu Darya then carried out devastating raids into India.

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.

The War would be the most devastating in British military history, with near 800, 000 men killed and over 2 million wounded.

The play received glowing reviews in all the British broadsheets, including The Times: " The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating "; The Daily Telegraph: " I can't praise this enthralling production too highly ... exceptionally gripping courtroom drama "; and The Independent: " A necessary triumph ".

Smallpox was a serious threat in colonial America, most devastating to Native Americans, but also to Anglo-American settlers.

" By circa 1700, smallpox had become among the most devastating of epidemic diseases circulating in the Atlantic world.

Hurricane David is the most powerful and devastating hurricane ever recorded in Dominica.

Hurricanes and severe winds, most likely to occur during the wettest months, occasionally are devastating.

It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters.

Essendon struggled to make the finals in 4th place, but once there they suddenly ignited to put in one of the most consistently devastating September performances in VFL history.

* 1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1, 200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.

He called the admission " the most devastating moment of my life.

During 1943, as the Soviet armies advanced towards the borders of the Reich, the western Allies developed the ability to launch devastating air raids on most German cities, including Berlin.

It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.

The most devastating form of redlining, and the most common use of the term, refers to mortgage discrimination.

The devastating volcanic eruption of Thera has become the most famous single event in the Aegean before the fall of Troy.

The type of desertification caused by year-round pasturing of cattle has been termed the most devastating in Central Asia, with the gravest situations in Turkmenistan and the Kazakh steppe along the eastern and northern coasts of the Caspian Sea.

While Japan may have the longest recorded history of tsunamis, the sheer destruction caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami event mark it as the most devastating of its kind in modern times, killing around 230, 000 people.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

* June 1 – Ethiopia experiences its most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6. 7.

* June 13 – In Hungary, a most devastating tornado called " Wildkansas " struck, and left a 500-1500m wide and 70 km long path of destruction, landed at Bia, and after 3 hours it ended near Vác, destroyed a village called Páty completely, and left many people homless, killed 9 people, and 50 people got wounded.

It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.

While most of his proposals-" to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics ( including a consumer price index ) in order to facilitate this effort "-are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still " remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom ".

* David Harvey ( born 1935 ), world's most cited academic geographer and winner of the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, also noted for his work in critical geography and critique of global capitalism.

* Gillian Rose ( born 1962 ), most famous for her critique: Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge ( 1993 ), which was one of the first moves towards a development of feminist geography.

Godwin opposed government because it infringes on the individual's right to " private judgement " to determine which actions most maximize utility, but also makes a critique of all authority over the individual's judgement.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

The most rigorous medieval critique of Maimonides is Hasdai Crescas ' Or Adonai.

Another critique of the game system has been the large effect of character age on skills, usually considered the most important character attributes.

Freud initiated the psychoanalytic critique of Surrealism with his remark that what interested him most about the Surrealists was not their unconscious but their conscious.

" At its most basic, Adorno's thought is motivated by a fundamental critique of this law.

As with most other professional scientific journals, articles undergo an initial screening by the editor, followed by peer review ( in which other scientists, chosen by the editor for expertise with the subject matter but who have no connection to the research under review, will read and critique articles ), before publication.

The most famous use of cultural relativism as a means of cultural critique is Margaret Mead's dissertation research ( under Boas ) of adolescent female sexuality in Samoa.

In a later essay, Debord will argue that his work was the most important social critique since Marx's work.

In response to these criticisms, BioWare announced on April 5 that they would reschedule their post-release content production and release an " Extended Cut " DLC that would expand the original endings and address the most common points of critique.

Later in his critique, Philip noted that the " most disturbing aspect of Garner's use of magic " in both The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and its sequel The Moon of Gomrath was his " seemingly haphazard " manner of incorporating elements taken from a myriad of different European mythologies.

The OIG is to examine, evaluate and, where necessary, critique these operations and activities, recommending ways for the Department to carry out its responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible.

Nevertheless the most incisive critique of the vanguardism against the views of mainstream society was offered by the New York critic Harold Rosenberg in the late 1960s.

Broke and on the verge of having his car repossessed, with no other options except a low-paying newspaper job in Ohio, Joe tries to persuade Paramount Pictures producer Sheldrake ( Clark ) to buy his most recent script, but fails after script reader Betty Schaefer ( Olson ) gives Sheldrake a harsh critique of the script in her summation.

The most thorough critique of the system emerged from the hearings conducted in 1960 ( 1961 by the Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery, known as the Jackson Subcommittee for its chairman, Senator Henry Jackson.

Thornton describes the Crit as a " rite of passage " for the students and as the artist's " most influential " work-" an institutional critique that reveals the limits of the rest of the curriculum.

Her Views of Society and Manners in America ( 1821 ) brought her the most attention as a critique of the new nation.

Avrum Stroll has produced probably the most comprehensive critique of the program of natural kind semantics ( both Putnam's and Kripke's ) in his book Sketches of Landscapes.

The critique from ecological economics was even more fundamental, claiming that most means of measuring well-being indicated that the developed nations were in a state of " uneconomic growth " through the 1980s and 1990s, due mostly to failures of measurement, most or all of which could be tracked back to the practice of using the Gross National Product as a means of making money supply decisions.