Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend ( 1954 ), a horror / science fiction novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles.

The loss of manpower and income due to the ravages of the plague was almost ruinous.

* An outbreak of a plague hits Athens and the disease ravages the densely packed city ( modern DNA analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been typhus ).

The Novgorodians retook the fortress in 1349 after a seven month siege, and Magnus fell back, in large part due to the ravages of the plague farther West.

It was also here that Etchegaray compared, in May 1978, the ravages of unemployment to the those of the plague of Marseille of 1720.

" Never mind that Jews were not immune from the ravages of the plague ; they were tortured until they " confessed " to crimes that they could not possibly have committed.

1992 saw the release of Svartedauen ( Norwegian for " The Black Death "), a 38-minute musical description of the ravages of the bubonic plague in Norway around 1349.

The ravages of plague were so fierce at Deruta that rewalling in the later 15th century took in a smaller circuit to accommodate the reduced population.

In 1656, after suffering the ravages of plague, and raids from Spanish and Austrian troops, the population was reduced by half.

In consequence of the ravages of the American Civil War the theological seminary at Mercersburg was closed for a while and so in 1863 Dr. Schaff became secretary of the Sabbath Committee ( which opposed the “ continental Sunday ”) in New York City, and held the position till 1870.

His legal practice was damaged by the ravages of the Great Depression, but he supplemented this work with a position as counsel to the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners.

The truth is more banal: Race Maggad wanted to live in a climate where he could drive his German sports cars year-round, far from the ravages of Wisconsin winters.

Of insects Africa has many thousand different kinds ; of these the locust is the proverbial scourge of the continent, and the ravages of the termites are almost incredible.

In Royal National Park, littoral rainforest ( often the first type of vegetation destroyed during coastal development ) has survived the ravages that occurred elsewhere during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Modern analysis has shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.

Main Street looks today much as it did then, though the elm canopy has mostly fallen victim to the ravages of Dutch Elm disease.

The current exposure of the jetty to the elements and to the ravages of its growing number of visitors has led to a controversy over the preservation of the sculpture.

On one wall in the courtyard there is a plaque affixed by Pope Clement XI, who praises San Clemente, declaring, " This ancient church has withstood the ravages of the centuries.

Crumbling and covered by dust and grime, the grave has clearly suffered the ravages of time.

While claiming it an obvious improvement over her previous releases of the decade, he finished with " It ’ s easily the strongest album that she ’ s made in this millennium, but suffers from the fact that her vocals have deteriorated — a simple fact of the ravages that her voice has undergone in the past fifteen years.

It has survived not only the ravages of time but also the 1964 flood of the area, a 1908 attempt at logging, and a direct lightning strike which removed the top of the tree ( making its original height close to 300ft ).

The Foundation has overseen the restoration and upkeep of many grave sites, monuments, mausolea, and buildings that had been affected by the ravages of time.

In the Forgotten Realms, with the rise of humanity and its rapacious expansion into traditional elven homelands, Sehanine has found her energies increasingly occupied by thwarting the destructive ravages of gods such as Auril, Cyric, Malar, Talos, and Umberlee.

The master has become the victim of this dread disease ; the clerks, a young man whose energies were devoted to the well-being of the union, has been added to the victims ; the matron, too, is dead ; and the respected, and esteemed physician has fallen before the ravages of pestilence, in his constant attendance on the diseased inmates.

Only one window on the third floor has escaped the ravages of time.

When it becomes clear that the Al Drechar deliberately effected the transference at the cost of Lyanna's life because she couldn't contain the One entity, Erienne's fury is understandable ; however, she now has the One magic whether she likes it or not and is eventually forced to allow the remaining Al Drechar help her shield her mind from the ravages of the One.

Most of his work has been lost to the ravages of time, especially due to the disastrous fire at Christiansborg.

On account of its strategic geopolitical situation, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, it has been frequently attacked by invaders including Ilamids ( Elamites ), Umayyads, Abbasids as well as the Portuguese and British, whose ravages are still evident.

Rab C. Nesbitt creator Ian Pattison has affectionately described Iain as “ a hamlet-faced bamette, who when not working ravages around like a wasp trapped in a jar, driven mad by his own bitterness !”

Much of his work has not survived to this day, or has been partially destroyed by either fire, war, or the general ravages of time.

The war ravages and lack of economic opportunities left large numbers of heavily armed and brutalized former separatist fighters with no occupation but further violence.

Re-appearing in New York in 1956 to begin work on her first film in three years, Hayworth was described by the following: " despite the artfully applied make-up and shoulder-length red hair, there was no concealing the ravages of drink and stress.

Generally, less expensive beads are more susceptible to the ravages of time no matter their country of origin.

Warren's research gives an accurate ethno-social background to prostitution of the young men and women who came to Singapore a hundred years ago, having little or no education, who could not converse, read or write in English and resorted by any and all means to survive the ravages of war, hunger and privation back in the country of origin.

Having procured the sanction of the Olympic and Delphic gods for disregarding any attempt which the Argives might make to stop his march, on the pretext of a religious truce, he carried his ravages still farther than Agesilaus had done in 393 BC ; but as he suffered the aspect of the victims to deter him from occupying a permanent post, the expedition yielded no fruit but the plunder.

In the meantime Great Britain had taken no steps to exercise authority on the spot, while the ravages of Zulus confined Portuguese authority to the limits of their fort.

The Order was founded in 1822, which certainly was not before Noah's Flood, and no satisfactory answer can be found in the records that have survived the ravages of time.

Almost no old architecture survived the ravages of World War II.

Though obviously under the influence of the liquor in the bottle she carries around before and after her delivery of the song ' He's Just My Bill ,' the song itself is performed straight, with no hint of the ravages that alcohol have taken on her body and voice.

The Mausoleum, now located on the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, is no longer open to tourists, and the ravages of time and carelessness have stripped the ruins bare.

He argues that there is an emergence of new types of " alienation and exploitation ", in the form of ravages of the free market, which have " have robbed life of its meaning ".