During the Great Northern War, Vidzeme was totally ravaged by Peter the Great's forces.

The city was ravaged by a tornado.

The city was ravaged by a tornado.

Welfare programs in war ravaged countries often aggravate joblessness by reducing work incentives and creating a culture of dependency.

In 1608, it was twice ravaged by the Poles.

Kagame managed to transform a country ravaged by civil war into one with an impressive record in development and fighting corruption.

The US gave billions of dollars of aid to rebuild war ravaged countries in Europe.

The problems of war ravaged countries are far more acute and their choices much more constrained.

Finally, donor countries must apply the lessons learned in restoring the war ravaged states of the former Yugoslavia.

In an impoverished, war ravaged Europe, people yearned for peace, freedom, stability, and a new chance to prosper.

Floods have ravaged parts of Germany.

In a region ravaged by conflict, business as usual is no longer an option.

Today, many African countries are ravaged by conflict and, as the EU rendered war between its members redundant, practical regional integration could achieve the same in Africa.

Sadly, global warming will likely destroy some of the same countries ravaged by the tsunami.

The Ministry of Tourism launched several campaigns to encourage travel to coastal towns and to war ravaged Aleppo by promoting videos of clubs and parties in the city.

Wars of politics and religion ravaged the continent.

Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of rebuilding Sri Lanka s war ravaged north and reconciling the Tamils at a time of global recession.

They ravaged the countryside, obliterating everything in their path.

BERLIN How heartwarming it is to land in Germany, where football fans hold up banners welcoming refugees from the war ravaged Middle East.

Europe is overcoming state nationalism, while Russia is building a nation state.Broken by history and not wishing to be ravaged by war again, Europeans have embraced compromise and renounced the direct use of force in international relations.

Reporter David Yu Santos documented the situation in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, the first town ravaged by typhoon Haiyan.

Southeast Asia is more than just white sand beaches, temples and resorts it is also one of the most war ravaged regions of the planet.

The Marshall Plan was a macroeconomic strategy involving massive capital transfers to help reconstruct the war ravaged industrial capacity and infrastructure of economies with well developed institutions.

The country is rated among the worst on the continent in terms of human rights violations, second only to Ethiopia and to war and conflict ravaged zones.

Years of neglect following civil war had ravaged Africa's second largest country and turned roads in the area into dangerous paths filled with difficult to navigate potholes.

Generating and harnessing top level political commitment to engage societies ravaged by HIV AIDS is critical to fighting this battle successfully.

Sudan has been ravaged for decades by bitter conflicts rooted in abject poverty, struggles over resources, and ethnic and religious tensions.

Ravaged by endemic elite discord since its founding, Pakistan desperately needs an elite reconciliation that includes all of the country s major stakeholders.

The war didn't break out by accident.

England was once torn by civil war.

War is accompanied by poverty and misery.

Punishment is ultimately an instrument not the only one, nor the most important for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.

By 2001, the Cold War was long over.

the threat could best be eliminated by war.

By mid August, the world was at war.

The country's economy was dislocated by the war.

Thousands of women were widowed by the war.

The film, directed by Neill Blomkamp, takes place on a state of the art space habitat called Elysium in an overpopulated and ravaged planet Earth.

On leave he again acted in a nightclub in the now ravaged city of Hamburg.

It is more often an act of war, albeit war by the weak rather than by organized states and their armies.

Civil war, motivated by ethnic and religious divisions, followed.

We must prevent a war by all possible means.

We must prevent a war by all possible means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Eisenhower ended the Korean War, Nixon the war in Vietnam both wars started by their Democrat predecessors.