Sentence examples for ravaging communities from inspiring English sources

The author of books including No Logo and This Changes Everything said that an epidemic of despair linked to oil extraction and mining was ravaging communities in Africa and the Americas, leading to suicides and gross injustices.

Unless we move faster, the Ebola outbreak ravaging communities across West Africa will continue to spread.

It is no secret that the opioid epidemic is ravaging communities across the United States.

My father was born in Sierra Leone and my parents married there, so I've always felt a connection to that country, but never as strongly as in recent weeks as the Ebola virus has stormed through Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, ravaging communities and taking innocent lives.

Unless action is urgently and massively increased, the Ebola outbreak ravaging communities across West Africa will continue to threaten the lives of millions of people.

"This, I think, is clearly the most effective, most thoughtful, most enforceable, most pro-active, most appropriate piece of legislation in the country to address a terrible scourge that is destroying the lives of children in our city and ravaging communities," Mr. Miller said.

A severe rainstorm brought on mud slides and flash floods that ravaged communities along the mountainous northern coast, including sections of the Caracas metropolitan area.

The chief judge said the plan would deal not only with a criminal justice problem, but also with "ruined lives, broken families, neglected children, ravaged communities".

Forecasters said the appalling conditions that have ravaged communities showed no signs of abating, with heavy rain expected on Friday and Saturday.

The scourge of Aids has taken a terrible toll across the continent; outbreaks of Ebola and other killer diseases have ravaged communities and set back tentative economic advances.

Barack Obama has unveiled a new federal initiative to combat the opioid crisis that has ravaged communities across the United States, causing more annual deaths in some states than car accidents.