Sentences with phrase «who ravages»

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

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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.

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.

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

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.»

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?

Accompanying her choices is a photo gallery of athletes who, having endured boycotts and the ravages of time, quest for gold in a third, fourth or, in one remarkable case, fifth Summer Olympics.

Criticism was aimed at Gerrard, perceived as showing the ravages of time, and Rodgers, who struggled tactically in the Champions League.

Jews whose great - grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.

We all know that there are people who are youthful folks in their seventies, eighties, and even beyond, physically and mentally, and people who we feel are prematurely old, either from disease or just because the ravages of time have worked more quickly on them.

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.»

While countless scientific reports have documented the ravages of climate change on oceanic life, a survey of the researchers who wrote them provides a silver lining: An overwhelming majority noticed examples of sea life withstanding climate change.

In Fred Saberhagen's Swords series, Ardneh is a mythological figure who fought the great demon Orcus to protect humanity from his ravages.

It is the parents and caregivers who are able to think outside the box and realize that the USDA Food Plate and Food Pyramid are nothing but a political sham and that Traditional Foods for breakfast are ideal which are high in fat and protein with no refined carbs who truly have a fighting chance to preserve and protect their children from the ravages of the childhood obesity epidemic.

That's a weird concept to wrap one's head around, especially for those who have seen the ravages of the disease.

Official Premise: A female vampire with lesbian tendencies ravages the young girls and townsfolk of a peaceful hamlet in eighteenth century Europe who, years earlier, killed off her fellow vampires.

But the survival thriller from writer / director Trey Edward Shults, set sometime after the ravages of an unnamed and unexplained plague have ripped through the cities and sent survivors into the isolation of the wilderness, isn't about monsters (human or otherwise) who hunt in the dark.

From there, we're armed with the hope that Jarhead is going to be a Catch - 22 about the ravages of war on those who are no longer, or have never, fought it.

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.

A western remake of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese classic «The Seven Samurai,» «The Magnificent Seven» has Yul Brynner leading a band of gunslingers hired to protect a tiny Mexican village from the ravages of bandits who come to steal the crops and rape the women.

Reuniting with director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey), McKellen brings the world's greatest detective to life in a somewhat sedate mystery, more of an examination of the ravages of old age and senility, and the guilt that can prey upon those who have perhaps been a bit too insensitive.

She's one of the finest and most versatile actresses of our generation, and her performance in «Still Alice» as a linguistics professor who slowly suffers the ravages of early - onset Alzheimer's disease is one of her most delicate and precise.

It considers the psychology of the people who drive the conflict that ravages those terrorized towns on the border and questions the nature of U.S. involvement.

He does hit all the high notes — the ravages of poverty, the lessons of James Coleman, the further lessons of Richard Rothstein, even bringing in Joel Klein as the heartless reformer who thinks a student's home life is «irrelevant» — but ends up being completely off - key, forgetting that we now have dozens, if not hundreds, of schools that are succeeding in educating poor children.

Although his statewide marathon of appearances has proven less than fun when addressing crowds of individuals who seek to improve his reform proposals, he's repeatedly acknowledged how imperative it is for this state's future that the ravages of poverty be overcome within our public schools and that policies and state funding mechanisms be devised to ensure equal educational opportunity for all children.

From a half - Shawnee Indian's bold choice to escape an abusive home only to find herself with a man who will one day try to kill her, to a brave young girl's determination to protect her younger sister as methamphetamine ravages their family, the characters in this remarkable novel have deep connections to the land, and a resilience that only the place they call home could create.

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.

A magnificent love story, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his pre-war sweetheart.

11 Bit Studios has shaken up the genre and have created a game that takes a startling look at the ravages of war through the eyes of the civilians who undoubtedly get caught between the warring factions.

In the words of Edward Gibbon (who never saw it), «Had this magnificent edifice remained in a solitary country, it would have been exposed to the ravages of time; but it might, perhaps, have escaped the rapacious industry of man.

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.

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.

And remind everyone who represents you at every level of government that sheltering future generations against the ravages of climate change is a prerequisite for your vote.

They took this action to support the people whose lives would be put at risk with the completion of the Dominion Cove Point LNG export terminal and liquefaction plant, and also to support people across the Marcellus shale who have been living with the ravages of fracking.

Bonds, who previously worked as a waitress and manager at Pizza Hut and for convenience stores, dedicated the rest of her life to protecting Appalachia and the people who live there from the ravages of mountaintop removal mining.

«These predictions are a treasure trove for those who are fighting to protect one of the world's most magnificent and important ecosystems from the ravages of climate change,» said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment.

The scale and rate and increment of development that seemed normal in 2003 is over and gone for good,» warns author James Howard Kunstler, who has spent two decades chronicling the ravages of suburban sprawl and sees shrinkage, not growth, as the wave of the future.

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.

This gave certainty to claimants who were no longer at risk of the vagaries of the stock market or the ravages of inflation.

With the help of The Darkness (who has some ulterior motives), Kaos constructs a massive flying machine that ravages the floating world of Skylands and absorbs its magical essence.

Novus has a strong team of therapists who work together to help people heal from the ravages of sex addiction.