Their initial eagerness to be outlaws soon abates, however, when the boys are confronted with the realities of preying on others in a nation ravaged by war and exploitation.

In the former Yugoslavia, United States troops and aid workers are largely concentrated in Bosnia, the breakaway nation most ravaged by Yugoslavia's four-year civil war.

He felt sympathetic to the Spanish, who had seen their nation ravaged by French soldiers, but he determined to tolerate no looting for fear of provoking a guerilla war.

The head of the World Trade Organization issued a plea to all member nations on Friday to lower trade barriers as a way of helping nations ravaged by the tsunami.

Even with the upbeat American military assessment, there is no guarantee that the accord will heal a nation ravaged by nearly four years of killing.

In many of the African nations most ravaged by AIDS, the annual health budget comes to less than $10 per capita.

At least initially, a large part of the money will go toward building a health infrastructure in the African nations most ravaged by AIDS.

Officials said that today's shipment, considered a test run, is the start of a logistics effort that will ultimately carry one-third of the emergency supplies into a nation ravaged by drought and war.

Having integrated many European nations ravaged by the Cold War, we must now do the same for the Western Balkans.

With nearly the entire nation freshly ravaged by the Vikings, England was in a desperate state.