Economic requirements triumphed over environmental considerations when the Soviet-era Nairit plant was reopened in January 1992 after being closed in 1989 because of the massive air pollution it caused.

The most significant plague epidemic began in Attica in 1688, an occasion that caused the massive migration of all the Athenians toward the south ; most of them settled in Aegina.

Monoculture and the massive decline of many bee species ( both wild and domesticated ) have increasingly caused honey bee keepers to become migratory so that bees can be concentrated in seasonally varying high-demand areas of pollination.

The fall of the Siad Barre and Mengistu governments in Somalia and Ethiopia, respectively, in 1991, caused Djibouti to face national security threats due to the instability in the neighboring states and a massive influx of refugees estimated at 100, 000 from Somalia and Ethiopia.

German bombing during the Second World War caused massive damage to the docks with 380, 000 tons of timber destroyed in the Surrey Docks in a single night.

This caused massive unrest as the lower classes struggled to convert their now useless sucres to U. S. dollars and lost wealth, while the upper classes ( whose members already had their wealth invested in U. S. dollars ) gained wealth in turn.

According to very scanty information from the Imperial archives, including sources such as Rikkokushi, and Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, Emperor Yōzei murdered one of his retainers, an action that caused massive scandal in the Heian court.

The Revolution caused a massive shift of power from the Roman Catholic Church to the state.

Stock footage of a massive Earthquake from The Mysterians was employed to make the earthquake caused by Kong and Godzilla's plummet into the ocean much more violent than the tame tremor seen in the Japanese version.

The earthquake caused massive devastation, with most buildings crumbled, including Haiti's presidential palace.

The nomadic incursions caused a massive influx of Slavs to the safer, heavily forested regions of the north, particularly to the area known as Zalesye.

In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments ; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $ 80 billion from the war.

The embargo failed in the United States just as it did in France, and caused massive hardships up and down the seaboard, which depended on foreign trade.

In the 13th century the Mongol horde passed through and caused massive destruction in the area.

The onset of World War II caused a massive upheaval in people's lives as military mobilization engaged millions of men.

On 6 November 2007, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia visited the city, which caused a massive demonstration of support.

North and South both suffered from the massive destruction caused during the Korean War.

The nuclear winter scenario predicts that the huge fires caused by nuclear explosions ( from burning urban areas ) would loft massive amounts of dense smoke from the fires, into the upper troposphere / stratosphere.

Some pathogens ( such as the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which may have caused the Black Plague, the Variola virus, and the Malaria protozoa ) have been responsible for massive numbers of casualties and have had numerous effects on afflicted groups.

In the 11th and 12th centuries, constant incursions by nomadic Turkic tribes, such as the Kipchaks and the Pechenegs, caused a massive migration of Slavic populations to the safer, heavily forested regions of the north, particularly to the area known as Zalesye.

Lee agreed to lift the ban on US beef imports, which caused massive protests and demonstrations in the months that followed, as paranoia of potential mad cow disease gripped the country.

With such massive population drops caused by the Black Death, the tax revenues from this industry greatly diminished.

His 10-year-long kingship resulted in a massive number of deaths, mostly due to the disruptions the Zulu caused in neighbouring tribes, although the exact death toll is a matter of scholarly dispute.

French philosopher Voltaire criticised Leibniz's concept of theodicy in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ( Poem on the Lisbon disaster ), suggesting that the massive destruction of innocent lives caused by the Lisbon earthquake demonstrated that God was not providing the " best of all possible worlds ".

This has caused a massive panic, with everyone trying to flee the likely impact sites.

The Luftwaffe did not apparently have an official policy of terror bombing in which civilians were deliberately targeted, but the effects of the raids on Guernica and Madrid caused many civilian casualties and a wave of protests in the democracies.

" ( The story was written during the Lebanon War of 1982, when Israeli planes bombed the modern Tyre and caused heavy civilian casualties ).

Much of the destruction of civilian lives and property was caused by the cruelty and greed of mercenary soldiers.

The conflict in East Africa caused enormous civilian casualties.

300, 000 were caused by military operations and food shortages, and 200, 000 by the Spanish Flu Another estimate of the demographic loss of the civilian population in the France during the war put total excess deaths at 264, 000 to 284, 000 not including an additional 100, 000 to 120, 000 Spanish Flu deaths.

589, 000 caused by food shortages and 432, 000 by the Spanish Flu Another estimate of the demographic loss of the civilian population in the Italy during the war put total excess deaths at 324, 000 not including an additional 300, 000 Spanish Flu deaths.

Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

720 German civilians were killed by allied air raids Civilian deaths caused by the Blockade of GermanyGerman official statistics estimated 763, 000 civilian malnutrition and disease deaths were caused by the blockade of Germany.

Based on the above mentioned German study of 1928 they maintained that “ A thorough inquiry has led to the conclusion that the number of “ civilian ” deaths traceable to the war was 424, 000, to which number must be added about 200, 000 deaths caused by the influenza epidemic ” Not included in the figure of 763, 000 famine deaths are additional civilian deaths during the blockade of Germany after the armistice from November 1918 until June 1919.

The Second Intifada has caused thousands of victims on both sides, both among combatants and among civilians – The death toll, including both military and civilian, is estimated to be 5, 500 Palestinians and over 1, 000 Israelis, as well as 64 foreign citizens.

In terms of human costs, the Thirty Years ' wars many economic, social, and population dislocations caused by the hardline methods adopted by Ferdinand's strict counter-reformation measures and almost continual employment of mercenary field armies contributed significantly to the loss of life and tragic depopulation of all the German states, during a war which some estimates put the civilian loss of life as high as fifty-percent overall.

In his book On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, Norman Dixon suggested that the hostility towards convoys in the naval establishment were in part caused by a ( sub-conscious ) perception of convoys as effeminating, due to warships having to care for civilian merchant ships.

In either case, the unintended mass civilian casualties, terror caused, and ethical questions raised draws adverse long-term attention to the morality of strategic bombing.

The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles ( 39 square kilometres ) of the city centre and caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties.

In April 2002, he was at the head of an activist group arriving in the West Bank to protest the massive Israeli Army operation conducted at that time that caused many civilian Palestinian casualties (" Operation Defensive Shield " in official Israeli terminology ).

These attacks are known to have caused at least 300 civilian deaths and extensive damage.

The suspension of conscription in Germany in 2011 is therefore reported to have caused problems for " caring " activities previously undertaken by objectors performing civilian service.

It was also preferred as it caused less collateral damage and civilian casualties than Allied bombing.

During the massive shelling of the city that followed, most of the Russian artillery were directed toward the upper floors of the buildings ; although this caused massive destruction of infrastructure, civilian casualties were much less than in the first battles.

Under the reign of the restored King Constantine I, Greece went on to lose the Greco-Turkish war with heavy military and civilian casualties ; Winston Churchill later wrote that " it was a monkey bite that caused the death of those 250, 000 people.

In the human species competition can be expensive on many levels, not only in lives lost to war, physical injuries, and damaged psychological well beings, but also in the health effects from everyday civilian life caused by work stress, long work hours, abusive working relationships, and poor working conditions, that detract from the enjoyment of life, even as such competition results in financial gain for the owners.

Included are deaths attributable to coalition and insurgent military action, sectarian violence and criminal violence, which refers to excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.