1.   Afghanistan is a country on the brink of whole-scale famine, ravaged by decades of war and ongoing infighting.

2.   In a country whose people have been ravaged by decades of war and genocide, standard psychiatric diagnoses can hardly do justice to the toll.

3.   In spartan conditions, she will teach local nurses eye care and help amputees in a country ravaged by decades of war.

4.   This is a strange way to build a democracy and civil society, particularly in a country ravaged by decades of totalitarian intimidation.

5.   An international conference on aid to Cambodia closed Wednesday with no official announcement of a new injection of funds to rebuild the nation ravaged by decades of war.

6.   Museveni has appealed to the exiled Asian Ugandans to return home and help rebuild the country, ravaged by decades of dictatorship and civil war.

7.   The central region was particularly ravaged by decades of war.