Sentence examples for a problem that afflicted from inspiring English sources

Encouragingly, Black Box has also sorted a problem that afflicted its earlier NFS games.

But his administration has fallen victim to a problem that afflicted the Obama administration before it — slow first quarters that helped keep annual economic growth below 3%.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is one example of a problem that afflicts many companies, she says.

The reason is "adverse selection" -- a problem that afflicts many markets, but insurance markets in particular.

Revenue per subscriber is falling faster than subscriptions are growing, a problem that afflicts all operators save the second biggest, KDDI.

Its persistence is in large part due to widespread public ignorance - a problem that afflicts democracy on a wide range of issues.

With around 300 employees and plenty of ambition, it comes as a surprise to find that Jacquey complains of a problem that afflicts large swathes of the UK developer community: an inability to recruit staff.

There are no statistics on the number of people who are elevator phobic, but it is a problem that afflicts working people across the nation, and not just in major vertical metropolises like New York and Chicago.

In 1992, GM was said to be within an hour of going bust, with its bosses waiting by the fax machine for the ratings downgrade that would have tipped it over the edge.This is not a problem that afflicts Toyota, which carries a rock-solid AAA rating from Standard & Poor's and spews out more cash than a salaryman on a golfing holiday.

In any case, this doesn't seem to be a problem that afflicts America, which is among the world's richest nations and has very good growth rates for a developed country.None of this is what I really wanted to talk about in this post.

(How about a version of the bodyguards' technology: a wireless microphone on the speaker's lapel, transmitting to an earpiece?) But the investment that goes into addressing a problem that afflicts more than 10 million people in this country is minuscule, compared with the investment that is poured into other consumer technology.