Sentences with phrase «hazael ravages»

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

That's because Trump's bonus arrangement with the company sidestepped the ravages of debt.

But even regular exercise can't forestall all the ravages of time.

The ravages of older age take more of a toll on us all each year, with previously good friends now finding all of their time taken up by kids and family, a never - ending crush of career - related busy - ness, or just plain, simple laziness.

Nadella runs 30 minutes each morning, preferring the treadmill to spare his 49 - year - old knees from the ravages of concrete.

A new documentary captures the ravages of extreme storms and sea - level rise that threaten the tiny country.

After earlier stints as a junior finance minister and deputy governor, he took over as Governor of the Bank of Canada seven months before the global recession really began to bite in September 2008, and is credited with keeping his homeland free from the worst ravages of the crisis.

Japan's lost decade - the period between 1991 and 2001 - highlights the ravages of deflation.

Indeed, he is the god who ravages all our dreams and systems....

Biblical law offers a means for limiting the ravages of the disease of avarice, and as a result it is the Church, not economists, that must lead in offering the corrective.

Is it consistent with the life and work of Jesus Christ to be «reasonably» comfortable in an age of advanced materialism, limits to the consumption of resources and energy, and the continuing ravages of malnutrition and poverty?

When Adam disobeyed he became subject to all the ravages of mortality, corruption and death.

They protected not only their industries but to some extent their communities from the ravages of the global system.

Mark 1:41, in the older manuscripts, says that Jesus was «moved with anger» when he saw the man with leprosy — perhaps because of the ravages of the illness.

Not one country had been spared these ravages in one manner or another and it was only when a relative peace between the Church and the world was established towards the end of the 19th century that the Church could begin once more to reconstruct its intellectual and physical structures.

Some are fighting local battles to preserve some bit of nature or some disempowered people from further ravages.

We send our sons and daughters to suit up for armed services to defend the U. S. of A. or other defenseless countries from the influences and ravages of moral depravity (wickedness); or our civil authorities who, by God's design, arm themselves daily to keep order and peace, to avenge and bring retribution to wrongdoers (Rom.

Certain situations in life give rise to particular needs, when our frail bodies find themselves defenceless before the violence of others or the ravages of disease.

The cyclical ravages of inflation, the doubts about the future of Social Security and the continuing escalation of health care costs must cause at least occasional anxiety for any prudent person.

It is ironic that in spite of the new helping resources that are now available, the majority of alcoholics and their families continue to suffer the ravages of the illness.

When the world seems to be crumbling, when churches seem to be failing, when natural disaster after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you, God?

Otherwise we will be left only with Gold's meager hope that marriage and all of morality might somehow survive the ravages of culture.

By not accepting liability for the ravages of capitalism and imperialism, the church becomes a liability.

Thus a Platonist might be most impressed with the ravages of time, its continually nugatory effect to make all temporal things transient and thus only half real, existing only in a perpetual process of perishing.

Gaining a better understanding of the conflict in Syria, natural disasters affecting Haiti or terrorism that continually ravages the Middle East and parts of Africa is important because we can then decipher for ourselves the impact Americans can have in those situations.

At 35 years of age, his liver could no longer resist the ravages of alcohol.

Some of the social ravages, the Pope believes, can be avoided, or at least tempered.

It breaks my heart to hear people who say they want to be free from the ravages of childhood or the beating of adulthood, yet choose to say that they just can't become free --- and you just don't understand ---- and if you try and tell me that I can be, well you are a bully and you really have never let go of you pain.

What my family and I need most is the love and care of a local parish community that is a haven from the ravages of the culture.

We go ourselves in search of green grass and of such means as may alleviate the ravages of an earth whose prevalent systems are advantageous for so few and demeaning and destructive for so many.

The man of steel, the one who routinely saved the planet from the ravages of evil invaders, is dead.

When this has gone on for a while, the «pull» of increasing production in the form of new jobs, greater availability of materials to meet basic needs and more money for investment will lift the bottom line of poverty above destitution and eliminate the worst ravages of hunger, disease and deprivation generally.

He will help them to get well if he can, and he thinks that on their part they should try: «Few people faced with a diagnosis of potentially remediable malignant disease should be willing to give up the struggle if there is any reasonable chance that some promising form of treatment is available to lessen the ravages of the disease or cure it.

A very expensive attempt to restore it in the 1980s has not held off the ravages of the years.

It is once again time for Catholic universities to serve as monasteries, preserving the deepest things, in the midst of the current barbarian ravages.

Here we see his concern with the ravages of our world to which modernist liberalism has contributed.

Although the physical ravages of leprosy are bad, the mental and emotional damage it causes is even worse.

Process thinkers share Hauerwas» concern to develop postmodern ways of thinking and living that provide an alternative to the ravages modernism has inflicted on our planet.

Babbo, dear Babbo, you are so mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence.

Quixote has survived the ravages of time chiefly because he is of his nature timeless; he enchants us with his absolute exorbitance, his ability to inhabit a parallel reality of his own, corresponding wholly to his own poetic and moral creed.

Is it the case that man will be able to conserve himself, his civilization, his history and the world not only from the ravages of time and death but also from man's own destructive and demonic tendencies?

Ditto for the billions who have died horrible deaths from the ravages of diseases and wars.

Jefferson Davis said: «We will invoke the God of our fathers, who delivered them from the power of the lion [England], to protect us from the ravages of the bear [the Union]; and thus, putting our trust in God and in our own firm hearts and strong arms, we will vindicate the right as best we may.»

It may be a river that ravages the villages on its banks, a river for drowning and forgetting.

And do we pastors, who so frequently encounter the human ravages of alcohol, need to be lectured on the evils of drink in a lonely and desecrated world?

The worst ravages have not happened to men's houses or even to their bodies.

Whatever, then, their cause may be, whether they are the corruptions of public officials or the ravages of private citizens, it is common to the whole country.

We could have TV spots featuring someone like Rock Hudson at a stage of the AIDS disease where its ravages are unmistakable.

On the other hand, when we look at the merciless ravages of nature or at the bestiality, even of religiously educated man — especially as we have seen him in this century — it is impossible to maintain that creation is merely good.

World tensions and anxieties are certainly harmful to mental health, and the physical ravages of war spread sickness, injury, and death everywhere.