| Take Liberia for example, wracked by a 14-year civil war, sparked by political misrule and economic collapse. |
| The anguish that she felt came pouring out and she cried, shuddering as the sobs wracked her body. |
| The idea of a wild chaotic continent wracked by poverty, drought and tribal warfare is challenged by images as well as words. |
| We cannot have a high-functioning industrial economy if the key commodities that fuel it are produced in regions wracked by terminal instability. |
| Devon struggled to speak through the convulsive shivering that wracked his body. |
| On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate. |
