The phrase "a sickness on" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a negative condition or situation, but it lacks proper context and structure.
Example: "There seems to be a sickness on the rise in our community, affecting many families."
Alternatives: "a plague of" or "an epidemic of".
Guaranteeing to "get well" similarly reinforces the notion that health is a binary, with sickness on one side and wellness on the other.
Prior was fit to keep wicket again after the discomforts of a sickness bug on Friday but was uncharacteristically untidy behind the stumps.
Microsoft's co-founder said at the Munich Security Conference in Germany Saturday that we're due for an apocalyptic sickness on the scale of the 1918 flu, which killed some 50 million people.
Boredom is a sickness, a blight on contemporary life, secondary only in its capacity for damage to the self-destructive things we do to relieve it: eating too much, getting hammered, picking fights (virtual or in real life), taking stupid risks, having affairs, mooching mindlessly around the shops buying things we don't really need.
The second type of busyness also results in health problems, but it is a sickness we bring on ourselves.
Haneke is however also suggesting that Germany's 20th-century wars are merely a continuation of this sickness on a bigger scale, though the link can never be clearly, definitively made.
That doesn't sound like greed or hubris or an out-of-touch multimillionaire drama king who Monday claimed he was "fighting for his life". That sounds like someone whose delusion borders on a sickness born out of the same insecurities that make so many of the great ones engage in these Faustian bargains.
Parents will record in a diary the degree of sickness on a 4-point scale (not ill – moderately ill – quite ill – very ill) and the presence of fever until their child has recovered.
I'm still on antidepressants, I missed out on promotion, my once exemplary sickness record is tarnished – I'm on a sickness stage that means I'll eventually have to face a disciplinary.
"This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers".
