What's the difference between ramage and ravage?

Ramage


Definition:

  • (n.) Boughs or branches.
  • (n.) Warbling of birds in trees.
  • (a.) Wild; untamed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "As this new, nationwide survey clearly shows, Japan fisheries agency bureaucrats' claims of public support for whaling are as wrong and outdated as the practice they seek to defend," Ramage said.
  • (2) "The government of Korea made the right call and should be commended for it," said Patrick Ramage, the director of the fund's global whale programme.
  • (3) "The people of Japan are taking whale meat off the menu," said Patrick Ramage, director of the fund's global whale programme.
  • (4) Douglas Ramage, an expert on Indonesia at analysts Bower Group Asia, says Jokowi's popularity springs from the perception that he is something many Indonesian politicians seemingly are not – overwhelmingly honest and sincere.
  • (5) Subs: Phillips, Garvan, Dobbie, Wilbraham, Williams, Alexander, Ramage.
  • (6) There will be departures, too, with Aaron Wilbraham, Peter Ramage, Owen Garvan and Darcy Blake potentially to leave.
  • (7) Patrick Ramage, the director of Ifaw's global whale programme, said that was due in part to the influence wielded by politicians representing coastal fishing communities with links to whaling, and bureaucrats at the fisheries agency.
  • (8) "The fisheries agency is using international opposition to whaling to build domestic support," Ramage said.
  • (9) DF Crystal Palace Ins Yaya Sanogo (Arsenal, loan), Pape Souaré (Lille, £3.45m), Jordon Mutch (QPR, £4.75m), Shola Ameobi (free agent), Andreas Breimyr (Bryne, undisc), Wilfried Zaha (Manchester United, £3m); Keshi Anderson (Barton Rovers, undisc); Lee Chung-yong (Bolton, £750,000) Outs Stuart O’Keefe (Cardiff, undisc), Jack Hunt and Zeki Fryers (both Rotherham, loan), Andrew Johnson (released), Jimmy Kébé (released), Alex Wynter (Colchester, undisc), Peter Ramage (Barnsley, loan), Jake Gray (Cheltenham, loan), Lewis Price (Crawley, loan), Andreas Breimyr (Bryne, loan), Barry Bannan (Bolton, loan) Alan Pardew and the Palace board will be satisfied with their month’s work having added extensively to their first-team options.They have secured a natural left-back, two reinforcements up front, two versatile attacking midfielders and, in Zaha, a club favourite .
  • (10) Ramage said: "Whale watching is an economically beneficial alternative that's taking off in Japan and deserves government support."
  • (11) "He's got this persuasive quality about him and he is also seen as decisive," says Ramage.

Ravage


Definition:

  • (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
  • (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
  • (2) They were ravaged by injuries at that point, although Park and Rafael in the centre was weird.
  • (3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (4) That, officials claim, would allow further discussions on debt relief seen as crucial if the recession-ravaged Greek economy is ever to recover.
  • (5) The disease will keep ravaging the population (and slowly overwhelm the health service) until these circumstances change.
  • (6) Ignoring the tragedies of Matthew’s life prior to his murder will do nothing to help other young men in our community who are sold for sex, ravaged by drugs, and generally exploited.
  • (7) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (8) His voice, already weak from the ravages of Parkinson’s Syndrome, was flagging.
  • (9) Art galleries are scarce in the ravaged cities, but there are blank walls and pavements in abundance.
  • (10) Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.
  • (11) Depicting the situation in Gaza in grim language the report states: “Three Israeli military operations in the past six years, in addition to eight years of economic blockade, have ravaged the already debilitated infrastructure of Gaza, shattered its productive base, left no time for meaningful reconstruction or economic recovery and impoverished the Palestinian population in Gaza , rendering their economic wellbeing worse than the level of two decades previous.
  • (12) In addition, the ravages of disease and the seasonal variations of food supply need to be overcome in tropical areas.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest He commands the screen even when silent, his pain flitting across that gaunt, ravaged face … Sean Bean in Broken.
  • (14) Political manoeuvering aside, the 54-year-old will come under immediate pressure to revive the economy, rein in the strong yen and oversee the reconstruction of the tsunami-ravaged north-east coast and the operation to stabilise Fukushima Daiichi.
  • (15) He added: "This [flexible screen] is Samsung's silver bullet against the ravages on commoditisation in Android, but fortunately Samsung does not need it to work right away.
  • (16) It said Syria’s “exceptional archaeological and historical heritage” had not escaped the ravages of a conflict that has killed almost 93,000 and prompted 1.6 million refugees to flee the country.
  • (17) The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories.
  • (18) Instead, in his view, there was only broad agreement on the need for a fund to protect poor countries from the worst ravages of climate change, a plan to help developing countries adopt new clean energy technology, and another programme — with funding from the industrialised world — to reduce deforestation in the developing world. "
  • (19) Nor is there any inherent contradiction in an environmentalist being in favour of nuclear power – George Monbiot , Mark Lynas and James Lovelock have written eloquently on the importance of nuclear power in mitigating the ravages of climate change.
  • (20) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.

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