Sentence examples for Scourge of humanity from inspiring English sources

These expert manipulators have been the scourge of humanity over the millennia.

Donald Henderson Donald Ainslie Hendersonn), (born Sept. 7, 1928, Lakewood, Ohio died Aug. 19, 2016, Towson, Md ., American epidemiologist who spearheaded the successful international effort to eradicate smallpox, a disease that was for many centuries a feared and destructive scourge of humanity.

"He considers religion as the scourge of humanity, which dampens down our fantasies and our lust to think and experiment". Naipaul - who has also in the past criticised New Labour in the strongest terms - has a long history of heated literary criticism, too.

Malaria is a scourge of humanity, particularly for the inhabitants of poor tropical countries.

He has become the Destroyer, his only goal to eliminate the scourge of humanity from the planet.

Brewer, abolitionist, social reformer and English Member of Parliament Sir Thomas Buxton said, "Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains". Poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge had an even darker take on the avoidance of work: "The love of indolence is universal, or next to it". Indeed, laziness has been a scourge of humanity for millennia.

"These are the scourges of humanity, open and festering in every corner of the planet, although they are often ignored and sometimes deliberately concealed; wounds that torture the souls and bodies of countless of our brothers and sisters".

Much focus is justly given to pulmonary tuberculosis, one of the key medical scourges of humanity, but this disease also often manifests itself in organs outside of the lungs.

Smallpox was beyond a doubt one of the greatest scourges of humanity.

The underlying biology of that scourge of modern humanity, cancer, looks as though it is about to yield its main secret.

And the third is that our efforts to dismantle this scourge on humanity are totally disorganized, a drop in an ocean of corruption and greed.