Voorbeelden van wrack

• He showed the obvious and the hidden of urban life: the workers, unemployed, architecture and ghettos, growth and human wracks.

• Few scholars have been engaged in this work, and many of the communities live in areas wracked by civil war.

• In 1941 and 1944, the city was wracked by communal riots.

• In a continent wracked by economic retrenchment and civil war during the past two decades, public services have declined across the board.

• They imagine an entire nation wracked by famine.

• It aims to understand the sense of anxiety that permeates people's lives wracked by traumatic memories of war and persistent concerns about their physical and emotional survival.

• Hart was wracked with uncertainty after his decision to decline the post and his reasons for doing so were complicated.

• He remains entrenched in his freehold, while the work of his parish goes to wrack and ruin.

• People have gone missing from both communities since the events that first wracked the island soon after its independence in 1960.

• In a world wracked by a titanic struggle between two totally opposed political and economic systems, this seems to me to be utterly unrealistic.

• It was interesting to me, but whether it will bring any solace to those who are wracked in their beds every night is extremely doubtful.

• He said that the workers were war weary and nerve wracked, and did not quite realise all they were asking.

• I know a man of 80 years of age, who after 51 years working in the industry is wracked with pain and extremely distressed.

• The amount of wrack imported is relatively insignificant.

• The walls were damp and decaying, and the people were wracked with rheumatism and chest troubles.