Sentence examples for severely ravaged from inspiring English sources

With vineyards severely ravaged or lost, many Bordeaux wine growers turned to Merlot, increasing its plantings to where it soon became the most widely planted grape in Bordeaux.

"The typhoon has totally disrupted livelihoods," said Fernando Gonzalez, Governor of Albay, the province in Bicol most severely ravaged by the typhoon.

Moreover, some illegal collectors have also ravaged and severely damaged scientifically important sites.

It's an ambivalent period, a dark and difficult time" – food is still severely rationed, London is ravaged by bomb damage, demobbed soldiers are looking for work and there is widespread poverty.

Three severe epidemics have ravaged African populations.

The Wampanoag dominated the east side of Narragansett Bay, but their numbers were severely reduced by an unknown epidemic that ravaged the Native Americans of Cape Cod and elsewhere in Massachusetts in 1616 19.

The European diseases that ravaged the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas also severely affected the various Maya groups of Petén.

The European diseases that ravaged the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas also severely affected the various Maya groups of the entire Yucatán Peninsula.

The massive influx is severely straining the capacity of an educational system already ravaged by poverty and conflict.

We learn from his biography that he was moved in particular by seeing the penalties of ill health – by the sight of mortality (a dead body being taken to cremation), morbidity (a person severely afflicted by illness), and disability (a person reduced and ravaged by unaided old age).

And lest we forget why Christie is popular enough to ride to an overwhelming reelection in a blue state: "One year after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the state, one-fourth of New Jersey voters said they were severely affected by the storm, and seven in eight voters said they approved of Gov. Chris Christie's handling of the problems it caused".