He was so successful that, in retaliation for his destruction of their opium stocks,the British ravaged large parts of southern China, and Lin was quickly dismissed.
Genghis Khan first led the Mongols into Western Xia territory in 1205 and ravaged them four years later.
Their landmark report paints a bleak picture of a planet ravaged by an ever-growing human population, whose insatiable consumption is destroying the natural world.
Humanity has been ravaged by the usual political and ecological disasters (among them "bandwidth riots" referred to in Wade's introductory voice-over), and most people seek refuge in a digital paradise called the Oasis.
An example of poverty breeding mistrust comes from Colin Turnbull's ethnographic study The Mountain People (1972), about the Ik, a displaced tribe ravaged by Ugandan drought in the 1960s.
In countries ravaged by conflict, providing international medical expertise on the ground can be almost impossible.
A quilt wrapped around a ravaged young woman is just one practical, loving act of service that demonstrates God's grace.
He was so successful that, in retaliation for his destruction of their opium stocks,the British ravaged large parts of southern China, and Lin was quickly dismissed.
The sort of structural upheaval that ravaged CD sales can prompt an "existential fear among employees", he observes.
China remained a weak, poor country divided by warlords and ravaged by internal conflicts.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
The enemy had ravaged the whole kingdom, driven away the king, and slain all the inhabitants.
