Ravages

Again, if you simply remove the uterus, then the surgeon is not ascertaining the cause and potentially leaving the patient to further ravages from the original cause (as well as a host of consequences from the surgery itself). ❋ Aka TBTAM (2007)

In January of this year, eleven of the lepers, on whom the disease, after having committed certain ravages, showed no further signs of activity, were brought back to Honolulu for re-examination. ❋ Unknown (1913)

In January of this year, eleven of the lepers, on whom the disease, after having committed certain ravages, showed no further signs of activity, were brought back to ❋ Unknown (1911)

In January of this year eleven of the lepers, on whom the disease, after having committed certain ravages, showed no further signs of activity, were brought back to ❋ Unknown (1908)

It does suggest, however, that investors venturing into TIPS should do so for the right reasons: to insulate their portfolios from the long-term ravages of inflation rather than exploiting a short-term opportunity.

Especially since we are living longer and longer, investors typically underestimate the long-term ravages of inflation.

His doctors are trying to ward off the so-called ravages of age, but are aging him prematurely instead. ❋ Ted C. Fishman (2010)

Standing here, thinking about the devastation in Bosnia, the long columns of hopeless refugees streaming from their homes, it is impossible not to recall the ravages that were visited on your wonderful country 150 years ago -- not by war, of course, but by natural disaster when the crops rotted black in the ground. ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)

Sometimes their ravages are a matter of serious concern to the farmer. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

The first scene of our ravages was a large country-house, surrounded by the most charming grounds. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)

Whilst seeking extraneous aids to beauty, they neglected the simplest precautions for its preservation, though, when their charms had faded, they eagerly sought means to repair what were incorrectly called the ravages of time, but were only the unavoidable consequences of their own neglect. ❋ Benjamin Lumley (1843)

It must be nice to be so free of the "ravages" of intelligence, but it is becoming rather irritating to read your comments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So much depended on her milliner, her dressmaker, her costumer, and her maid, and to their credit be it spoken, they performed their duty so well, that the 'ravages' of the fashionable seasons she had passed through were not at all visible. ❋ Various (N/A)

February 22nd, 2010 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Monday said her government was working single-mindedly to deliver the promise of inclusive growth for the "aam aadmi", who had to be protected against the "ravages" of the economic crisis and the failure of the monsoon in mid 2009. ❋ Ians (2010)

The conference of peripheral maritime regions (CPMR) says the aim is to find ways of helping peripheral regions withstand the "ravages" of the credit crunch and the "schizophrenia of the financial markets." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among these was the intimation in the editorial that one of the 'ravages' of unmanaged CARICOM migration could be "a disturbance of the existing equilibrium among races '". ❋ Unknown (2009)

July speech in front of Chinese leaders, when he warned that the U.S. and China must cooperate to avoid the "ravages" of climate change. ❋ Unknown (2009)