Sentences with phrase «by ravages»

There are many lives touched by the ravages of substance abuse.

If the coal binge continues, global climate targets will almost certainly be out of reach, and much of the good done by coal will be undone by the ravages of climate change.

this is a terrible tragedy for those in burma whose lives have been destroyed or otherwise directly affected by the ravages of this powerful cyclone.

Muss brings new life to these disused objects that, while formerly useful, have been discarded, corroded by the ravages of time.

Somehow, the park escaped relatively unscathed by the ravages of centuries of war, and by the 19th century, it was already being developed as a holiday resort, with numerous hotels and restaurants constructed by the lakes.

This meditation on biodiversity passionately details species loss caused by the ravages of human activity and offers hope for preserving the richness of life on earth.

Positively giddy in its nihilistic misanthropy, the film watches a good man's sundering from his better nature by the ravages of war.

Will precast concrete emerge as the building material of choice for housing construction in a world increasingly threatened by the ravages of climate change?

While the life expectancy for children with cystic fibrosis has increased over the past few decades, many lives are still shortened in young adulthood by the ravages of lung infections.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

His eyes are swollen with scar tissue, the skin around them grooved by needles that couldn't completely mend the ravages of the ring.

Illustrations by Hilary Tucker accompany each page of text, revealing the sadness of the birds, the depth of despair during the storm that ravages the tree and the grief that follows its death.

Trident involves a nuclear priesthood with an archaic language and doctrine stuck in a past conflict that matters little to most of the electorate, protected from the ravages of austerity by a political class out of touch.

Tony Blair was elected by offering new hope in 1997 after the ravages of Thatcherism.

«Those ululating over the disclosure by the President of the World Bank should be a bit reflective, and consider the ravages that the North - east has suffered since 2009, when the Boko Haram insurgency started.

Fact 1: The UCRRA was created in 1987 by an act of the state legislature to protect the county taxpayers from the ravages of a waste hauling and disposal industry controlled by organized crime.

On the bright side, some people appear to overcome the ravages of a rotting brain by recruiting new brain systems or structures to take over functions of old ones.

Previous studies by others — notably by Mars, Inc., maker of M&M s — showed that dark chocolate triggers a number of beneficial changes that would appear to slow the ravages of atherosclerosis (see «Chocolate hearts» at http://www.sciencenews.org/20000318/bob2.asp).

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

The hormone can be boosted by exercise, suggesting that lifting weights might protect the brain from the ravages of old age.

Smallpox is doubtless uncommon among that class of people who burn gas for [light] in our cities because they generally have sufficient intelligence and forethought to attend to the vaccination of their families and its ravages are almost wholly confined to that improvident class who make no provision against the smallpox or anything else in the future and who live by the light of burning fluid.»

Some people's brains can withstand the ravages of the disease by elongating the connections between brain cells — a process that seems to counter mental decline.

A new paper published Wednesday by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Nobel Prize - winning Susumu Tonegawa provides the first strong evidence of this possibility and raises the hope of future treatments that could reverse some of the ravages of the disease on memory.

Thanks to the protection provided by vaccines, parents haven't seen the ravages that can be wrought on children by diseases like chicken pox, measles, meningitis and polio, said Dr. Claire McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

They do so primarily by protecting the skin from the ravages of sunburn, inflammation, and DNA damage.

In addition, antioxidants, such as fat - soluble vitamin E, which protect the body from the ravages of free radicals, are neutralized or destroyed by high temperatures and pressures.

In addition, make sure you're avoiding the ravages of sarcopenia by doing regular strength training.

The fact that cancer began rising in the vegetable oil group in the last few years of the study — again, despite the heavy rate of smoking and deficient intake of vitamin E in the control group — suggests that the full extent of the ravages of oxidative stress and inflammation caused by vegetable oils takes at least five years to develop.

The ravages of temperature extremes, high humidity and lack of nutrients are all buffered by these nutrients.

More critically, having never been conquered, Wakanda has evaded the historical traumas endured by much of the rest of Africa, freeing it from the ravages of both colonialism and postcolonialism.

In the spring of 2012, the Battle of New York ravages midtown Manhattan, with the Chitauri fleet — led by Thor's misfit,, adopted brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston)-- against the newly - formed Avengers.

The audience, then, is succinctly primed for another film about the ravages wrought by the ever - increasing social distance between the higher and lower classes.

From the book jacket: Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday.

One of the most talked about books of the year... Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday.

Fallen Land describes the ravages wrought by the General's tactics, writing that deeply affected at least one reader who said, «the writing by Mr. Brown made me feel like I was along for the ride, following along behind Sherman's cursed troops as they left their scar across the South.

New York, 1879: After an epic snow storm ravages the city of Albany, Dr. Mary Sutter, a former Civil War surgeon, begins a search for two little girls, the daughters of close friends killed by the storm who have vanished without a trace.

He has lost his homeland, a loss made sharper by his guilt at having escaped the ravages of war.

Without a concerted commitment by credit lenders and a texture of viable government policies and legislation, we fear that an increasing number of consumers will succumb to the ravages of debt.

To befriend all Earth's creatures of the land, the sea and the air — to defend them against ravages by mankind, and to inspire in human beings compassion for all.

Run by the Sint Maarten National Heritage Foundation, the museum features a diverse assemblage of exhibits covering everything from pre-Columbian history to the ravages of Hurricane Luis, which slammed into the island in 1995.

Wake believes the town is being overrun by something called The Dark Presence, a powerful shadow entity that possesses town folk and ravages the landscape.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 — 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

For the exhibition, Goldin chose works by artists who were directly affected by the AIDS crisis and whose works fearlessly portrayed the ravages of the disease and the widespread cultural indifference to AIDS patients.

It was clear that — after 12 decades of partition, 6 years of Nazi terror, and 44 years of Russian and Communist subjugation — few Poles are in any mood to have their lives, liberties, and living standards dictated by the European Union and United Nations, under the guise of «protecting the planet» from the supposed «ravages» of «cataclysmic» global warming (or «climate change» or «climate disruption» or whatever the catch - phrase of the week might be).

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

«Truth be told, we lawyers are society's first line of defense against the ravages of those ravaged by mental illness.