Sentences with word «ravages»

Yes, I'm a little obsessed with ravages of time.

Humanity would be impoverished by ravages of continually shifting shorelines and intensification of regional climate extremes.

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.

Pope Francis has sounded an urgent call to protect our most vulnerable sisters and brothers from the worst ravages of climate change.

So I hope we can find a cure so my own children and theirs are not left watching the pieces of the people they love fall away, and are not left holding the bag as this insidious disease ravages our nation and the world.

This variety of tree drops thousands of seeds when a fire ravages forests in the area.

AIDS ravages on, while characters still wrestle with their lives.

People who are familiar with the previous Resistance games will know the story has always been centred on humanities fight for survival against the ever multiplying Chimera virus which ravages its infected agents.

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

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

And it's common to offer guys a «yes, but» in which they might come in in year X or might have to take another year in junior, depending on what ravages your roster sustains.

Yes - it is demeaning and humiliating and intemperate and improper to publically shame with apparent derision from an Office that must be — not only appear to be - unbiased - untainted by the common emotional ravages of reason.

The life - long sometimes arduous task of helping couples strengthen their marriages against the inevitable ravages of time, and counter the myths of unending bliss, is one of tremendous import and consequences.

Plot: When a zombie plague ravages the globe, former United Nations worker Gerry Lane enters a race against time, sending him across the world in a bid to find the crippling pandemics origin.

There's Andreas Ernst, who compares the psychology of sceptics to that of rats, and Steven Moffic, who thinks that aversion therapy involving the use of «distressing images of the projected ravages of global warming» can cure sceptics of their sociopathy.

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?

Burtynsky's camera lovingly and gracefully captures environmental and social ravages by quoting art history.

Whereas Hazael ravages and slaughters the whole people of Israel and Judah, Jehu exterminates the political elite, all that is represented by Ahab.

«As this catastrophic storm ravages Houston and southeast Texas, NYSUT stands with educators, students and their families in mourning the heart - breaking losses there.

Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, exposing the environmental ravages of DDT, particularly among fish and birds of prey.

Whitham explained that as HIV ravages the body's immune system, «HPV goes unchecked, replicating quickly and developing abnormal lesions which can progress to cancer.»

A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake.

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.

Environmental journalist Girling ponders the many ways humans have steadily deteriorated biodiversity in our attempt to catalog and conquer the natural world, from bloody quests that stocked early zoos to the current ravages of the ivory trade.

She says this from her reservation, where there's 80 percent unemployment, suicide rates are reportedly 300 percent higher than the national average and alcoholism ravages her community.

Its physical and psychological impact ravages families and communities far too often.

After a lethal virus ravages and wipes out much of Tokyo, city officials administer the construction of a wall around the city and place severe restrictions on the lives of residents.

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.

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.

No Country for Old Men — the title comes from William Butler Yeats» «Sailing to Byzantium» — is really about the terrible ravages of change, and the way that only old men, men who have lived a while, can see it.

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.

And the highly elite driven system humankind is under isn't intending to change anything any time soon and when pressure falls on the basic necessities and the weather ravages homes and crops, more wars and migrants are inevitable.

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

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?

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

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.

By the application of intelligence, man can protect himself against the destructive ravages of nature and hardness her energies to do his bidding.

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

It is, in fact, the growing revenge of The Great Economy (the economy of nature) as The Big Economy ravages it.

«There's a line of his I use over and over again — that we're obliged not to impose our own inner ravages upon the world.

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.

«The scandal which is greatest is not that perplexity or heresy ravages the Church, or that the occasion of the greater sin exists beforehand, but that some men who claim and who love the Christian name, can say that the Church does not at all times, in her Palm Sundays, or upon her Cross, live the full life of Christ in mind as well as in heart, and does not possess the full and certain truth of Christ, and the authority to assert and to define it when the crisis comes [9].

The vineyards have so far escaped the direct ravages of the worst bushfires for 30 years but winemakers fear their grapes may have fallen victim to «smoke taint», which results in wines that taste like an ashtray and can ruin an entire vintage.