Sentence examples for a scourge that from inspiring English sources

Hunger is a scourge that has many causes.

Many of his friends died from bouts of malaria, a scourge that has plagued this agrarian society.

"We cannot create an underclass or treat pregnant girls as a scourge that needs to be kept away," says Bah.

He began to sound the alarm among evangelicals, chastening Christians for their past reluctance to fight against a scourge that somehow offended their moral piety.

In 1972, Mr. Garelik proposed a monthly "Anti-Graffiti Day" to combat what he deemed a scourge that "pollutes the eye and mind".

But on the face of it, a five-year delay in "eliminating" a scourge that has horrified people since biblical times is a mere blip.

The lack of anything more tangible seemed to render the outbreak all the more fearsome -- a scourge that seemed to have no identifiable motive or source to combat.

Clearly, the days when the nation's 280 million residents were virtually defenseless against a scourge that spreads easily and kills some 30percentt of its victims are over.

Terrorism is a scourge that can strike anywhere, including in the charitable sector, and it is right that we work to minimise the threat.

While it is saddening that we do not sufficiently fight high mortality rates in Africa, AIDS is a scourge that afflicts the entire world and lacks a cure.

Politicians and analysts in both the Middle East-Asia and Western world must summon the capacity to deal with this reality, rather than only blaming the other for a scourge that threatens them both.