1.   For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.

2.   And nearly two months after the torrential rains ravaged the country, the painful work of rebuilding is only just beginning.

3.   And nearly two months after the torrential rains ravaged the country, the painful work of rebuilding is just beginning.

4.   Civil war ravaged the country, and those living in Addis Ababa often awoke to blood in the streets.

5.   For the first time, residents rose in defiance to demand an end to the violence and power struggles that have ravaged their country for decades.

6.   In the Dominican Republic, soldiers enforced a curfew in the capital of Santo Domingo after Georges ravaged that country.

7.   Indeed, the ex-Marine appears to be absolutely sincere in his born-again religious beliefs and in his view that liberalism has ravaged the country he loves.

8.   The country is ravaged and has no democratic institutions.

9.   The president was thumbing through scientific journals, surfing through cyberspace and pondering the AIDS epidemic that is ravaging this country.

10.   A fragile peace accord last year ended the five-year war that ravaged the country and created hundreds of thousands of refugees.