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In drug-ravaged communities, where the ends tend to justify the means, that was enough to turn Mr Thaksin into a hero.

Before my entire ravaged colon was removed, my doctors let me peer through the scope and take a look at it as it died.

The war-ravaged agrarian country was transformed into a technologically advanced market economy with a sophisticated social welfare system.

While they became known as a force to be reckoned with, the starfighter unit was ravaged by the initial invasion forces of the Yuuzhan Vong.

Anyone he had ever injured by his conceit might now feel revenged to see how ravaged he looked.

She spent the last 13 years of her life in Milledgeville, most of them on crutches, her bones and joints ravaged by lupus.

And in countries ravaged by war where little else works, the local Red Cross society is often resilient.

Even so, Boosaaso is still a crumbling, broke, rough-and-tumble place, decaying after years of neglect like so much of war-ravaged Somalia.

In summer it is so parched it is often ravaged by fire.

His hair was scant and grey and his face , when the waves of expression had passed over it, had a ravaged look .

All active Satanists have ravaged personal lives, and this was the case with Marx as well.

Making the horrific amalgam more unpleasant was a persistent wet, hacking cough coming from his ravaged lungs.

To her own consciousness, the flowery fields of her reason had rarely been ravaged by a hostile force.

(Nissan's plant in Iwaki was an exception. ) But it ravaged the suppliers of critical parts and raw materials in north-eastern Japan.

God never intended for his creation to be ravaged by disaster. We don't know why he allows it. But one thing we know: God is in control.

As dawn broke yesterday in the ravaged townships, stories of terror, loss and acts of courage continued to emerge.

China will provide $1m in cash as emergency humanitarian aid to quake-ravaged Chile, said the Ministry of Commerce Monday.

The big shift away from manufacturing came as the U. S. sought to speed the recoveries of war-ravaged Europe and Asia.

With the recorded music industry ravaged by piracy and unable to keep pace with digital delivery, Gorillaz is showing a way forward.

Earlier in the year there was widespread concern that the sector would be ravaged by corporate defaults.

The dark side energies flowing through Palpatine's body were so intense, that they ravaged his mortal frame.

Most rich countries were once poor and war-ravaged, but they eventually grew out of it.

A year later, Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced his plan for war-ravaged Europe under the trees of Harvard Yard.

Along the banks of the flood-ravaged Mud Island Tuesday morning, the pleasure boats returned to the bloated Mississippi.

She reiterated that her country is determined to support any Afghan-led effort aimed at establishing peace in the war-ravaged nation.

Authorities have now charged a man with lighting one of the deadly wildfires that ravaged southern Australia.

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her turning away, hiding her ravaged face in her hands, muttering an inappropriate "Hi. "

New Orleans' mayor suspends reopening parts of the hurricane-ravaged city as Tropical Storm Rita threatens a new round of flooding.

What he saw -- and what he photographed -- was a country ravaged by decades of war, drought, and terrorism.

In February, 173 people died in wildfires that ravaged parts of the southern Australian state of Victoria.

The forbidden love of the two from two different worlds, it's like a manic storm ravaged afflicted two fragile hearts.

The White House is also asking Congress for nearly two billion dollars in emergency disaster aid for the flood-ravaged Midwest.

Under the system of fixed exchange rates and a gold-anchored dollar, world trade boomed (albeit from a low, war-ravaged base).

Those who believe they have plenty of time get ready only at the time of death. Then they are ravaged by regret. But isn't it far too late?

Dreaming of emigration and riches, I brushed through trees clinging to the side of the ravaged creek bank. I wasn't the first.

I joined with pastors and laypeople to deal with communities that had been ravaged by plant closings.

Federalism envisaged as the permanent answer to a war-ravaged Europe may be last century's dream.

S. President Bill Clinton appealed to international donors to help the earthquake-ravaged nation.

For record companies ravaged by piracy, it seemed like a good deal.

Working around the clock, Tzu Chi volunteers in the Philippines continue to survey areas ravaged by the recent typhoon Fengsheng.

The 24-year-old has had an injury-ravaged season and has played just twice in 2009 with a back injury the latest problem to hold him back.

But in a country that had been ravaged by genocidal conflict, the progress is amazing.

says Muhammad Abu Awad, a retired teacher of agriculture and father of 14 children, as he looks gloomily at his ravaged field.

A civil staff prepares plastic water tanks to be delivered to the ravaged areas in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Then, as the snow melted, floods ravaged Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, and tornadoes battered Alabama and Missouri.

National Guard troops continue to knock on every door in parts of storm-ravaged Kentucky, looking for ice storm victims in need of help.

Honduras, although poor and ravaged by corruption and violent gangs, had a seemingly stable democracy. But signs of strife were there.

At home, since Gabon was his, he cosseted it one moment and ravaged it the next.

For you have heard of my manner of life formerly in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God excessively and ravaged it.

Protests were reported in the cities of Hinche and Gonaives in Haiti's cholera-ravaged central region as well.

In a recession that hit all rungs of the income ladder and ravaged the wealthiest consumer markets, there were very few safe havens.

Yao has missed only four games this season as the injury-ravaged Rockets nip at the Spurs' heels for the Southwest Division lead.

"I could certainly eat you alive, " Martin said, in turn running insolent eyes over the other's disease-ravaged frame.

A modern, glass-wrapped hotel rises behind the ruins of a war-ravaged building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The islanders , their bodies ravaged by the white man's diseases and their culture destroyed by well-meaning missionaries, await extinction.

We seek now to destroy a foe that has ravaged its way across the universe consuming all in its path.

That night, Rachel died in her sleep with a peaceful smile upon her ravaged face.

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The bread-meat-salad combination is so good that entire countries have ravaged their eco-systems just to produce more cows.

Thousands of people have been evacuated as severe thunderstorms hit already flood-ravaged places.

And, though they would be darker, their ravaged faces too would come from deep within the earth.

Military and emergency efforts have been focused on the tsunami-ravaged regions or at the nuclear plant in Fukushima.

S. troops are being readied for an emergency mission to provide relief and security in earthquake-ravaged areas.

Soldiers were quickly deployed into the ravaged areas, many hiking into the mountains and across landslide-blocked roads with backpacks.

Looters smashed store windows and ravaged shopping malls as police stations and the national party headquarters burned through the night.

The U. S. top diplomat is also expected to visit flood ravaged areas in Thailand and meet with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

Instead, they have increased the social, economic and political turmoil that has ravaged the country since the old man's death in 1993.

He left a war-ravaged Kosovo in 1999 and was granted political asylum in the United States.

If we had to name the most ravaged sector of media, it would certainly have to be newspapers.

Her body had wasted away to 61 pounds, ravaged by a heavy-duty crack cocaine addiction, hepatitis, HIV, and late-stage syphilis.

The two-inch long stinging insects are thought to have ravaged colonies in the south of France.

Usually curable nowadays with antibiotics, it ravaged Europe for centuries, working on the victim's skin, joints, stomach, heart and brain.

That has left governments of coastal villages in the tsunami-ravaged region scrambling to dispose of corpses before hygiene problems emerge.

(CNN) -- Shunned by Western investors, economically ravaged Zimbabwe has turned its sights to the East to improve its finances.

Also, Mark Twain, through his book The Gilded Age (1873), described the social, political corruption that has ravaged the American nation.

I was on the outskirts of Beichuan, the quake-ravaged town, yesterday when I serendipitously encountered a physician with an unusual story.

They also saw how the music industry was being ravaged by similar forces.

The lord of the Legion was preparing to pass through the Well of Eternity and enter the ravaged world.

Even war-ravaged Sri Lanka recently named China as the key to reviving its beleaguered travel industry.

The year is 2015. The context for the game is Lucy's context. Miami has been devastated by a hurricane, and Bangladesh ravaged by a cyclone.

'When life is trampled, dignity ravaged, justice abandoned and human nature ruined, more people choose to muddle along. '

Nepal's economy has been ravaged in recent years as political uncertainty delayed infrastructure spending and kept foreign investors away.

Decades of throwing himself against this irrefutable wall of fact ravaged him, body then soul, and eventually destroyed him.

Commemorative stamps bearing their images fell into disuse as runaway inflation ravaged the seven-kopeck face value.

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The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague.

A witness at the scene said that 15 foot high flames also ravaged the building, and several explosions were heard.

In "Madness" a poet steels himself for one final stand after his village is ravaged by militants and he is trapped without food.

When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia in 2006, the country was ravaged by 15 years of civil war.

And so began the war, a war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space.

Our beautiful lands have been ravaged by a ruthless king. And our people live under the shadow of tyranny.

Price declines have been worse in flood-ravaged Brisbane and mining boomtown Perth.

But al-Shabab still controls the famine ravaged south, where 2. 2-million people are believed to be in desperate straits.

Banks still have much work to do to repair their ravaged balance-sheets, which will limit their ability to lend.

Ill-equipped to face the winter on this estranged place they were ravaged thoroughly.

After the financial hurricane ravaged the indicators of economic strength, sunlight broke through.

Trucks bump along its cracked and undulating surface, which is being ravaged by the freezing and thawing of the tundra beneath.

He doesn't look emaciated or bald, and he doesn't appear to be overly ravaged by prescription painkillers.

Much of Colombia was ravaged by leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries.

Unlike the earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption that ravaged Indonesia this week, the fires are man-made.

Flood ravaged low areas of Bazhong City, paralyzing traffic and phone services and causing mudslides.

Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave unexceptionable insightmight sound a shade patronising.

And a happy moment for earthquake-ravaged Japan.

In New Orleans, voters are choosing a leader to oversee the rebuilding of their hurricane-ravaged city.

Her father was King Cepheus whose country was being ravaged by storms.

In a town ravaged by the quake, the sad stories far outnumber ones like his.

Poachers, looking to sell tiger bones for medicinal purposes, have ravaged the population.

Survivors may be physically and mentally stunted, and ravaged by sores.

The population of Kabul has expanded eight-fold, and streets ravaged by war are bustling with street markets.

Aerial photographs of ravaged coastal areas showed a string of cities and villages leveled by the power ofthe tsunami.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

Israel's Channel Two television has broadcast what it says is smuggled video footage of a Chinese village ravaged in the fiery crash.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

They are particularly important in the inner-city minority communities that are most ravaged by poverty and crime.

We have ravaged or earth and then used the food that we've sourced to handicap ourselves in more ways than one.

Making life normal again is what many Georgians hope, especially in these areas ravaged by fighting.

The huge earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's north-eastern coast on March 11 knocked out the plant's cooling systems.

A combined U. S. civilian and military aid effort in the tsunami-ravaged region of Asia moved into high gear Monday.

She would not have asked before March 11, the day the massive quake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan.

Gulf of Mexico is the nation's major base for oil exploration and refining, but in the hurricane ravaged area.

Photographer Jared Moossy traveled to Somalia this September, photographing a country ravaged by famine.

The Red Cross says the health needs of women often are neglected and ignored in areas ravaged by conflict.

From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.

The old social bandits is property, now they ravaged the more " civilized society" .

Thinking of an urban hell-hole ravaged by warring factions?

The cities were ravaged, citizens were tortured, robbed, murdered, women were ravished, churches looted while the bells tolled horror.

of plague, probably bubonic and pneumonic, that ravaged Europe during the 14th century.

JAPAN'S military will fly tents and blankets to quake-ravaged China to answer Beijing's call for help.

He was about 15 kilometers offshore from the earthquake-ravaged city of Minamisoma, said Yoshiyuki Kotake, a Defense Ministry spokesman.

Yet in Sendai, about 250 miles northeast of Tokyo, and other cities ravaged by the earthquake, electricity returned within days.

Will we live in a world beset by rising rates of morbidity and mortality and ravaged by increasing disparity and inequality?

This solar system has be so very ravaged.

On almost every measure, Asian banks look far less ravaged than western peers.

(The UN Secretary General) Ban Ki-moon has urged the world to step up its support for flood-ravaged Pakistan.

During these war-ravaged years, Mara became pregnant and gave birth to their son, Ben Skywalker.

Running a peaceful and prosperous country is pleasanter and more profitable than running a ravaged, war-torn one.

During Pugachev's uprising the plant was again ravaged and destroyed.

Twenty local administrative bodies in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged north went to polls over the weekend to elect members.

When the economy is ravaged and the source of the trouble is banks themselves, the pitchforks come out.

The acne also ravaged my back, scoring the skin there so that it still looks scorched and lunar.

Rule of the gun prevails in North Kivu, a conflict-ravaged province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After Pakistani terrorists ravaged Mumbai in 2008, he sought to avert an anti-Muslim backlash.

Even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932.

A man ravaged by AIDS is bathed at a hospice in Zambia.

Coated with mud, a photo album lies amid debris in the earthquake-ravaged town of Natori, Japan, on March 14.

The two biggest in area, Sudan and Congo, are ravaged by strife and misgovernment .

Wolff watched it plummet toward a ravaged area of woodland.

In 1984-85 famine ravaged the Karamoja region of eastern Uganda, which shares the same dryland climate as Somalia and Ethiopia.

I remember being locked in Bolt's embrace while he ravaged me and for the first time in my life during sex I actually saw fireworks.

Instead, Lall found that there were relatively few severe events compared to such flood-ravaged years as 2002, 2003, and 2007.

Runaway cost inflation and labour and equipment shortages ravaged the commodities industry in 2007-08.

A tornado ravaged the countryside.

Join the Squad and rescue the hapless Darwins from fire ravaged buildings.

It's been five years since Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast.

The crops were ravaged by the typhoon.

These are countries that have been ravaged by war, massacre, and poverty.

The countryside has been ravaged by pollution.

The Japanese auto maker has been ravaged by quality and safety concerns in the past six months.

The Black Plague ravaged Europe.

An example that comes to mind is SARS crisis that has recently torn apart and ravaged most of China.

How can we rejoice in the motherland when she lies before us ravaged and broken?

The whole area was ravaged by forest fires.

The forests were ravaged by fire.

Yesterday, a 7. 1 magnitude earthquake struck the same area of Japan ravaged in March.

Being ravaged by two of course.

The third is to build capacity in war-ravaged countries.

Banks have been hit harder still, although they are not nearly as ravaged as those in America and Europe.

We could see the ravaged exterior of the reactors.

She had been ravaged, her belly torn open. The pups, so close to delivery, were gone.

The classified-ad market was ravaged by free listings websites such as Craigslist.

The Category 3 storm ravaged the Gulf Coast in August 2005.

Another fire ravaged the house in 1925.

UNICEF plans to use that time to step up public health and education programs in 14war-ravaged countries.

Land that is desolated, barren, or ravaged.

That is necessary in famine-ravaged places, but it damages local markets.

He has also ravaged Darfur in the west, leaving another 300, 000 dead and about 3m without homes.

After 10 hours the militiamen hustled us back into the bus and returned us to the camp, which was dark, silent and ravaged.

It isestimated that during the 15-year civil war that ravaged Lebanon, 100, 000 people were killed and another 100, 000 critically wounded.

In both 1980 and 1988, for example, severe drought and heat ravaged the central and eastern parts of the country.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani also visited a flood-ravaged area Thursday, pledging to provide relief to millions of flood victims

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We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs and search-and-destroy missions and by Viet Cong terrorists,

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