In the past, shorebirds have played an important role as a scourge of insects.
He is a scourge of establishments and an upholder, with caveats, of commerce as art's least irksome practical arena.
And Mrs. Pride has solidified her reputation as a hero to conservative Christians, a scourge of feminists, and a tribune to all home schooling families.
But on Thursday McCain talked about himself as a war hero, a scourge of wasteful spending and a man who learned to put country first in the Hanoi Hilton.
Tom Coburn, a senator from Oklahoma and a scourge of government waste, had put forward a measure to eliminate an expensive tax credit for ethanol.
If he is a scourge of neo-capitalism, he is also a sworn foe of liberal pluralism and political correctness.
It was a scourge of centuries past, a disease that ravaged the body and brain, drove geniuses to madness and slowly brought its victims to a terrible death.
While human malaria is a scourge of the tropics, killing an estimated 660,000 people a year, it has largely been chased out of the world's temperate regions.
It happened, once an Esquimau, A scourge of Polar Bears, Said, "In New Yawk They think and talk Of civilized affairs".
The bad news about cancer is that despite the billions spent over the past 30 years searching for a cure, it remains a scourge of the earth.
