The economy was ravaged by the Second World War.

Ravaged by raging feverand in a coma,

Most of the camp's inhabitants are people displaced from their homes in war ravaged Southern Sudan.

Millions of civilians were still threatened by unexploded mines and ordnance, which placed a heavy burden on the social and economic reconstruction of war ravaged countries.

An infection ravaged my skin.

While it was the task of the Somalis themselves to make peace, the international community should assist them in reconstructing their war ravaged country.

As everyone knew, that country had been ravaged for many years by a war which had had serious repercussions and in particular had caused the displacement of about a third of the population.

For its part, Niger is grateful that it has not been ravaged by major conflict.

The Bureau plans to gradually expand its capacity building activities to other war ravaged areas, especially in the Balkans, the Caucasus, southern Africa and South Asia.

Look at that face, ravaged, dissipated, evil.

For Afghanistan, ravaged by war without respite since the Saur Revolution of 1978, the endgame will be even more nerve wracking. As the US military leaves, it will enter another period of political and strategic uncertainty, after almost a half century of disorder and civil war.

Most of the returnees were persons who had fled to countries neighbouring Rwanda during, or shortly following, the genocide and civil war that ravaged Rwanda in 1994.

Welfare programs in war ravaged countries often aggravate joblessness by reducing work incentives and creating a culture of dependency. Minimum wage laws and labor agreements often make the least productive workers unaffordable to law abiding employers.

Meanwhile, although the number of active conflicts in the world is in decline, there remain too many people whose lives are ravaged by war or who live in countries which are struggling to recover from conflicts.

In 1992, FRELIMO and RENAMO signed a General Peace Agreement (AGP) thus bringing to an end the civil war that ravaged the country for more than 16 years.

The Peacebuilding Commission must become the means of renewing nations, where war and the collapse of proper systems of government have left them ravaged and their people desolate.

36. Mr. Ndaruzaniye (Burundi) said that it was particularly difficult to talk about human rights in a country which had just been ravaged by four years of civil war nonetheless, they should be discussed with rigour and realism.

Noting also that the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan needs critical international support and assistance in its efforts at stabilization and reconstruction of the war ravaged country

BERLIN How heartwarming it is to land in Germany, where football fans hold up banners welcoming refugees from the war ravaged Middle East. Germany is the new Promised Land for the desperate and downtrodden, the survivors of war and pillage.

Many Japanese, whose forebears ravaged the country in World War II, now profess a romantic sentimentality toward Myanmar. Yohei Sasakawa of the Nippon Foundation remembers eating rice shipped from the country in the lean years after the war in Japan.

5. Mr. Pagagua Fernández (Nicaragua) said that Nicaragua, after years of being ravaged by civil war, had been able to demonstrate that it had renounced violence by electing two successive democratic governments and had set its sights resolutely on the establishment of a genuine culture of peace.

In a country ravaged by violence against women, Indian peacekeepers have inspired many local women to join the police force.

97 percent of the land in the Galapagos Islands is protected, but the adjacent sea is being ravaged by fishing.

a) the need to reconstruct ravaged areas (infrastructure, economy, social organization)

Kelly... we've had two cases of ravaged children in our county.

Indeed, the bitter experience WWII taught Europeans how fundamental is the importance of shared values. In an impoverished, war ravaged Europe, people yearned for peace, freedom, stability, and a new chance to prosper.

Hundreds of thousands of dunums of arable land were ravaged and some 150,000 olive and orange trees were destroyed by fire.

Pakistan would look forward to UNIDO projects in the earthquake ravaged areas.

Around Capua, they ravaged the countryside... forcing other slaves to join them.

Because of the wars that had recently ravaged its territory, Croatia had also been faced with the problem of displaced persons and refugees, which had been compounded by the fact that the parts of Croatia to which most expatriates wished to return were those that had been devastated by the war.

No. The real trouble that ravaged my wife's family was something quite different

The slightest negative shock could have bankrupted the new federal government. Fortunately, the opposite happened federal revenues tripled under the impact of a rapid post war reconstruction boom, and continued to grow rapidly, aided by the country s ability to remain neutral while wars ravaged the European continent.

Ravaged throughout its history by a multitude of devastating wars, Belarus has always been a staunch advocate of peace and a worker for peace.

Internal displacement in Mozambique resulted from the protracted internal conflict which ravaged the country for almost 16 years, compounded by drought and natural disasters.

Afghanistan was ravaged with rockets and bombs under the pretext of finding Bin Laden.

In my own area of the South Pacific we developed a regional response to a regional problem. I am referring to the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, an island which was ravaged by civil war for nine years but has enjoyed peace for the last 12 months.

The US gave billions of dollars of aid to rebuild war ravaged countries in Europe. The plan was widely viewed as reflecting a new kind of enlightenment, a recognition of the importance of supporting people who needed help.

Their lands and resources have been stolen, their cultures ravaged and their human rights denied.

For the world s advanced countries, a key challenge is to broaden economic and social inclusion without diminishing the economic dynamism they already have. . The problems of war ravaged countries are far more acute and their choices much more constrained.

Almost everyone on the European continent, exhausted by war, and faced with the shattered institutions of their ravaged nation states, agreed. Only the victorious British, with their old institutions more or less intact, voiced skepticism, not so much about continental unity as about their own participation in Europe s ambitious project.

At a time when Africa was ravaged by numerous ethnic conflicts, the Saharans' continuing quest for a peaceful solution stood as a unique example on the continent.

The Ebola episode holds further lessons. One reason that the disease spread so rapidly in Liberia and Sierra Leone is that both are war ravaged countries, where a large proportion of the population is malnourished and the health care system has been devastated.

The refugees flight from Syria and other war ravaged countries comes up against legal regimes that are poorly adapted to cope with it. The European Union severely restricts labor from non member countries, but allows free movement of labor within its single market.

That is particularly true in the case of sub Saharan African countries that are ravaged by deadly and prolonged conflicts, with the primary victims being the civilian population.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.