Sentences with phrase «worst ravages»

The principal motivation for his research is to identify ways and means of reducing extinctions and mitigating the worst ravages of global change.

Barack Obama boarded a flight to Paris, where he said he will reaffirm the US's support for France in the face of «barbaric attacks» as well as forge a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert the worst ravages of climate change.

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

While the Audi A3 e-tron seems likely to avoid the worst ravages of electric car depreciation, it's unlikely to perform as well as one of its non-hybrid sister models.

Tough new rules designed to protect Europe's ecosystems from acid rain will not apply to parts of Norway, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, the areas of the continent that have suffered the worst ravages of acid pollution.

So if healthy genes could be sent into the lungs, Collins and Tsui reasoned, they could cure the worst ravages of the disease.

Now, scientists have suggested that corals have some active control over their skeletal growth — and that it may protect them from the worst ravages of ocean acidification.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

And it gets worse: just because you're not celiac doesn't mean you aren't susceptible to the ravages of gluten.

This was clearly a bad outbreak of the gypsy moth, an invasive species whose occasional arboreal ravages were familiar to me from childhood days in Rhode Island long ago.

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.

Whether you choose to call in a contractor, handyman or simply do it yourself, the damage should be addressed because as it will only get worse with the ravages of summer's heat.