Sentence examples for ravaging violence from inspiring English sources

Talking about writing against a backdrop of ravaging violence, he says "oftentimes I am speechless, like many of us are, but we are in the business of words so we have to somehow try and represent the effects of all of this on human beings".

But this all-American family was ravaged by violence which reached full force after his mother died and his father, then an alcoholic, began to beat him and his brother every night, for years, until a football coach discovered the welts and called the local sheriff.

But there were no WMD, the government is in chaos and the country is ravaged by violence.

And in countries ravaged by violence - from Haiti to Congo to East Timor - we will work with the UN and other partners to support an enduring peace.

Somalia has been ravaged by violence and anarchy since warlords overthrew Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on one another.

Military trucks and armored police vans brought a few hours peace to Kalksteenfontein Elementary School this morning so that a community ravaged by violence could pay tribute to another slain child.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party put Taro Aso into the job, but his future is in doubt as the country's economy contracts.Kenya was ravaged by violence following a disputed presidential election, leading to the formation of a fragile government of national unity in April.

In "White Material" Ms. Denis set her gaze, by turns cool and blistering, on an unnamed African country ravaged by violence, including that of European colonialism; it's a movie that serves as companion piece to her first feature, "Chocolat," set in 1950s Cameroon.

Arya's childhood was ravaged by violence.

In areas ravaged by violence, farmers cannot harvest their crops.

What is being assumed here is that a certain chaos will pertain, and that the disputed territory will be ravaged by violence as power oscillates back and forth between the "old" power and its incoming successor (the Islamic State).