Bernice King

With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.

American

Angela Davis

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

American Activist

Georges Duhamel

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

French Novelist

Foster Friess

The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

American Businessman

Nadia Murad

We must remain committed to rebuilding communities ravaged by genocide. Survivors deserve a safe and secure pathway home or safe passage elsewhere.

Iraqi Activist

Richard Lamm

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

American Politician

Michelle Bachelet

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

Chilean Politician

Noah Centineo

First love is ravaging - it just guts you in the most wonderful way, if you can see through it.

American Actor

Junot Diaz

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

American Writer

Michael Spence

With external help, even the countries ravaged by World War II recovered.

American Economist

Often associated with natural disasters or events causing widespread damage.

Disaster Linkage

'Ravage' implies more extensive destruction than 'damage', but less than 'obliterate'.

Severity Scale

Typically applied to impersonal or uncontrollable forces rather than individuals.

Impersonal Forces

As a noun, 'ravage' refers to the visible outcome of destruction.

Physical Manifestation

Focuses on the aftermath rather than the act of destruction.

Aftermath Focus

Indicates physical evidence of damage rather than emotional or psychological effects.

Concrete Evidence

 where we ended up watching helplessly from the water as bears ravaged our camp site. They walked off with our food and bits of our tent, clearly letting us know that we were at the bottom of the food chain and that this was their spot, not ours. But to me, that trip

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 When it was ravaging Europe, they brought together all these scientists, and they were stumped. And the beginnings of the cure to the disease came from the most unlikely source, a dairy farmer who noticed that the milkmaids were not getting smallpox.

Color blind or color...

 granting them lifespans as long as 41 years. Of course, bats aren’t totally invincible to disease, whether caused by bacteria, unfamiliar viruses, or even fungi. Bat populations have been ravaged by a fungal infection called white-nose syndrome,

Why bats don't get sick...

 during his illness. And my mother, alone, was grieving the love of her life trying to raise three children, and the creditors were knocking. We felt, as a family, financially and emotionally ravaged. And I began to spiral down, isolated, fast.

The gift and power of...

 and the ravages of time to become what I believe is the longest continuously occupied building in history. Largely because of that visit, I came to understand that, contrary to what I was being told in school, the worlds of art and design

Bran Ferren: To create...

 and I'm forever grateful for that first exchange. So obviously for a few weeks, I was a physical mess. Emotionally, mentally, I was doing OK. I was taking it well. But my body was ravaged, and those close to me, they weren't oblivious.

Our treatment of HIV has...

 mountain gorillas remained in Rwanda their population ravaged by poachers and the habitat threatened by encroaches Diane initiated extreme conservation measures engaging local people in the first protection patrols she started to

Mountain Gorillas'...

 nations looked over looked across the spectrum of really wrecked landscapes and and adopted a program of state-sponsored conservation to protect their remaining estates in too many cases colonial holdings from the ravages

How fire shapes...

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 sense that's the reason that you exist it's Earth's magnetic field that protects our atmosphere from the ravages of the solar wind and that protective

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