The phrase "a scourge which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a description or explanation of a harmful or destructive force or influence.
Example: "The report highlighted a scourge which has affected communities worldwide, leading to widespread poverty and suffering."
Alternatives: "a plague that" or "a bane which".
Her family suffers from what's called "food insecurity," otherwise known as hunger (a scourge which costs America $167 billion a year).
Both Bermuda and Jersey are tax havens which, as the Mail explained in a recent article, are a "scourge" which "costs Britain billions".
In his hour-and-a-half judgment, Branston said football hooliganism and violence was a "scourge which has badly damaged this country's reputation abroad".
And he told the Deptford schoolchildren how his foundation was methodically working to get rid of every last case of polio, a scourge which had paralysed hundreds and thousands of people each year.
Sickness absence costs the economy £22bn a year - a scourge which Dame Carol Black, who has been advising the government on workplace health issues in recent years, describes as "bad for families, the community and the economy".
It turns out that diving, once considered the art of the technically gifted Argentine midfielder, is a scourge which afflicts our England boys, too.
The contraction between early 2008 and the third quarter of 2009 was 6.0%, the longest and deepest reverse since the mid-1940s, when the economy was demobilising from peak wartime production.Mr Brown, for his part, will make much of the fact that the recession was a global scourge, which the Labour government fought with a fiscal stimulus that the Tories opposed.
The county plans to spray a pesticide called Scourge, which is closely related, chemically, to the Anvil pesticide being used by New York City, Westchester and other areas.
"It's just a big box .The Institute for Justice, which has been doing (ahem) the lord's work with respect to occupational licensing, recently released a paper on the scourge, which estimated that one in three workers need some sort of government permission to do their job.
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, wants a national summit called on the national scourge, which has killed an average of seven women a month in 2015.
The objective of the study is to define the incidence rate of cranial trauma in children as well as the mortality and morbidity of this scourge which presents a major public health problem.
