It can mean the difference between the comfort of stability and the ravages of poverty.
We both had our insecurities, mostly about looks and the ravages of time.
The country's sad record of political conflict since then, coupled with environmental problems and the ravages of the countrywide AIDS epidemic, hindered progress and growth for many years.
Until then, the monument will stay where it is, at the mercy of drunken teenage vandals and the ravages of time.
The former defensive lineman for Carolina and the Jets is dealing with the aftermath and the ravages of football, the game he still loves.
What's impressive about "In One Person" is its open fascination with bisexuality, cross-dressing, the politics of gender bending and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic.
The combined influence of gradual climatic change and the ravages of war led Viking and Norse sailors westward across the Atlantic beginning sometime around ad 800 to 900.
Some familiar themes reappear: the inevitability of bodily decay, and the ravages of age; marathon sessions of life-affirming sex; and the murky world of international high finance.
Harsh climate, termites and the ravages of time have taken a toll, along with repeated invasions — by the Songhai emperors, nomadic bandits, Moroccan princes and France.
Shafts of light shone down on our faces, and the ravages of age, multiplied by covering wars, drinking hard and smoking plenty, showed starkly.
But I know what she goes through, and the ravages of age, even if she is doing very well, as they say, for her age.
