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Over the last few years, geopolitical forces have come online to wreak havoc.
Angry, these young men set out to wreak vengeance on a society that they believed had turned its back on them.
From asteroids capable of destroying entire species, to gamma-ray bursts and supernovae that could exterminate life on Earth, outer space has no shortage of forces that could wreak havoc on our tiny planet.
I know firsthand how life-altering treatment can be, and I'm keenly aware of the emotional havoc that cancer can wreak on a family, which in our case included our two young daughters.
That would wreak havoc in my country.
Dracula's only mission is to wreak havoc upon the entire Van Helsing lineage and fragile Jessica is the ideal victim to achieve this.
Nightmare in Wax tells the story of a man, having had his face disfigured in a typical flashback scene, wreak his vengeance on those directly responsible and those indirectly for the losses in his life - most notably the love and companionship of a beautiful young actress.
Does it wreak of "lifetime movie network"?
and all this time big Franky(Glenn strange)lies on a table awaiting his electricity fix so he can wreak some havoc.this
George Hearn, of course,was the master of the role of Sweeney; there is never a touch of softness in his determination to wreak vengeance on those he believes caused his wife's death and his daughter's disappearance; at least not until the end, when he discovers that his thirst for revenge has led him to murder his wife.
Richie stalwart Jason Statham plays Jake, a newly-released ex-con, out to wreak revenge on the ridiculously named Dorothy Macha (a superbly OTT Ray Liotta) but instead gets embroiled with a couple of other cons, (one of which is Andre 3000 from rap outfit Outkast) who throw him and us the audience, a number of red herrings throughout the film, all of which becomes extremely tedious.
So once Jigsaw comes to life he uses his new abilities of walking very slow and stilted with the use of his molded fingers to wreak havoc.
If this was a 'wake-up' call for the States then it is equally tragic that in the subsequent 12 months the Israel/Palestine impasse is further from a solution while George Bush Jnr. would rather wreak revenge than make the world a safer place.
He's an ex-con and she takes advantage of him to wreak revenge on those who have hurt her.
You are probably thinking that surely now there will be a terrible price to pay for these two redneck morons as the couple will wreak bloody revenge upon them.
Jafar is now a genie, and plans to use his evil magic to destroy Aladdin and wreak revenge.
Of course, in the meantime they also send psychic messages to their buddies in the lizard kingdom - snakes can always wreak some havoc as can spiders, big lizards are well equipped to knock stuff over, and those turtles are more deadly than they look!
The continuing story gets a drastic change in geography this time around as it is transferred from the bustling streets and skyscrapers of Chicago, Illinois to the muggy, bourbon soaked south of New Orleans, Louisiana where the towering hook-handed would-be-urban-legend character of "Candyman" decides to wreak havoc by slicing and dicing through the family of his unwitting and white great, great, granddaughter (I believe it was) who, much like the first film, makes the lame-brained mistake of repeating his name into a mirror five times on a dare.
The chase, the unnecessary nudity, the false scares, the mirror, and finally Jason in all of his gory splendor coming back one more time to wreak havoc on Crystal Lake.
However I promised myself that I will wreak vengeance onto my tormentor.
Every so often, the basest elements of the human race, from the Holocaust to the Great Leap Forward, gush forth and wreak havoc on the world.
I don't recall the English losing a single ship, and the Spanish only a few-and though the fire ships will wreak havoc on the Armada, it will come about as they travel home-not as in the film in a giant conflagration.
Simply put, the old Soviet system of fear continues to wreak havoc on the truth and punish those who defend it on the page.
Meanwhile, the violent Islamist sect Boko Haram continues to wreak havoc in the northeast.
The fact that his family had fled India upon Partition gave him an additional chip on his shoulder: it was widely said that he saw relations with India as a series of opportunities to wreak vengeance for what his family had suffered in the refugee upheavals of 1947.
Drug cartels and gang warfare may ruin the lives of thousands of innocent people, but they should not be seen as equivalent to the ideological revolutionaries who used to wreak havoc in the region, or to contemporary mass terrorists.
But free hemoglobin can wreak havoc in the human body, causing hypertension, cardiac arrest, or even death.
Whatever the reason, the fact is that as long as humans fail to organize a collective and comprehensive defense, infectious diseases will continue to wreak havoc – with disastrous consequences.
The Other Financial CrisisNEWPORT BEACH – Two variants of financial crisis continue to wreak havoc on Western economies, fueling joblessness and poverty: the one that we read about regularly in newspapers, involving governments around the world; and a less visible one at the level of small and medium-size businesses and households.
But they can still wreak havoc, destabilizing countries and carrying out deadly assaults on civilians near and far.
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