In his second major speech on Iraq and the region on Tuesday - with its focus on the alleged depredations of the Iranian regime - the US president, George Bush, found himself wrong-footed by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA), the United Nations watchdog on nuclear issues.
Ms Warren's message about the depredations of runaway inequality won't have any teeth unless she puts herself in a position to take a mortally wounding bite out of Ms Clinton's support.
He has been careful not to impugn all profit-seeking, or even all private equity, yet it's hard to see how it's possible to attack Mr Romney for the alleged depredations of Bain Capital without implicitly attacking other profit-seekers responsible for similar labour-market churn.
He did not succeed in saving Czechoslovakia from the depredations of ambitious politicians in Prague and Bratislava, who saw great possibilities for their own advancement in smaller and separate countries.
Under Portugal Macau escaped many of the depredations of the Cultural Revolution, and it remains one of the last repositories of traditional Chinese culture.
This vulnerability is one of the reasons why Mr Putin thinks Europe will not act decisively against him over the annexation of Crimea, or any further territorial depredations he may have in mind.
There will be no selection by ability in the new schools, interviews will be banned and the admissions code for schools will be strengthened.The question now is what further depredations the bill will suffer in committee stage.
The hope, voiced always in a whisper, is that a nastier Taliban would then be comprehensively rejected by ordinary Afghans.Such unmentionable thoughts are deeply at odds with the stated NATO policy of trying to protect the population as much as possible from the depredations of Taliban insurgents.
Local businessmen, naturally enough, wanted protection from such depredations.
Both parliament and the courts have been neutered.These depredations should concern the West too.
But one thing the government will not do is rescue the doomed factory or start a hue and cry over the depredations of global capitalism.
