Sentences with phrase «other ravages»

Traditionally, researchers have been looking for ways to treat plaques and tangles in the brain and other ravages of Alzheimer's disease.

As director of the United Nations» Millennium Project, he works to save billions of people from disease, hunger, and the other ravages of extreme poverty.

As independent as they may strive to be, the baby boomers will not escape chronic illness and the other ravages of old age.

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.

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.

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.

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).

ALS ravages two distinct populations of motor neurons — one in the brain, the other in the spinal cord.

That means that this newly discovered world may not face the radioactive ravages that other «habitable» exoplanets must endure, thereby boosting its habitable potential.

Groups with other variants of the ApoE gene are not immune to the ravages of the modern diet.

The next quote I would like to feature from the Calabrese et al (1) paper addresses the common misconception that the blood - brain barrier and other factors will protect the brain from the ravages of systemic inflammation:

As one struggles against his inner demons, and the other succumbs to the mental ravages of war.

Most of the book is about the aftermath: the years of PTSD, the strange brush with celebrity, the ravages of serious illness, and trying to forge a new identity as something other than the little girl everyone has read about.

Taking place weeks after a devastating pandemic ravages New York on Black Friday, The Division has players team up with one another to survive against other dangerous citizens, while collecting large amounts of loot along the way.

The rest of the roster is filled up with series regulars, mysteriously saved from the ravages of age: controversial pin - up dominatrix Ivy remains, alongside crab - like bondage gimp Voldo, Toshiro Mifune tribute act Mitsurugi, and other familiars including Siegfried, Nightmare, Raphael, Cervantes and so on.

As climate change ravages the environment and the ethics of our human - centric relationship with other species is increasingly questioned, Huyghe's film is a hallucinogenic lament for a ravaged past and a grim future — one that will only be saved if we insist on new ways of interacting with the planet.

Given that they are in a show that ruminates on the ravages of time, watching these sculptures weather storms, summertime crowds and other fleeting phenomena should prove poignant.

As the latter continue to expand both in terms of facture (higher - quality CGI, filming via drones) and how they're nested in the expansive installations he produces with Lizzie Fitch, Trecartin is branching out in other directions: this year, he cocurated the New Museum's Triennial, Surround Audience, which unsurprisingly was filled with artists negotiating the ravages of the digital age.

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.

«Not only did this effect emerge for marital satisfaction, it also emerged for other relationship processes — like passion and sexual desire — that are especially vulnerable to the ravages of time,» Finkel said.

Help - wanted pleas can apply to many things after a hurricane or other natural disaster ravages a city.