Elisabeth takes exception to this suggestion, remarking that her "body imbued with a large part of the weaknesses of my sex … is afflicted very easily by the afflictions of the soul" (Elisabeth to Descartes, 24 May 1645, AT IV 208, Shapiro 2007 88).
Funding to study rare diseases that afflict the very poor is notoriously hard to come by (what little there is tends to come from armies).
Overcrowding also afflicts the very flavorful loin of lamb with arugula, artichokes, Ligurian olives, tomato confit and roasted eggplant in a cumin broth.
When it comes to gangs in Chicago — where gun violence afflicts a very small percentage of the population, but intensely — he likes the idea of trained "interrupters," who intervene with members after a violent incident to prevent retaliation.
Brain injury by transient complete global brain ischemia or by transient incomplete brain ischemia afflicts a very large number of patients in the world with death or permanent disability.
The present nonsystem hasn't worked all that badly for the big industrial countries, but the other 175 countries, where most of the population of the world lives, have been afflicted with very low quality money that's literally melted away in their pockets.
The recent deaths and destruction in Charlottesville and the impotent response of our president are only the most recent outward signs of a festering infection that afflicts the very soul of our nation.
"I feel very afflicted," he said.
This leads him to write of a fatal "double bind" afflicting anthropology: the very "purity" it craves is no more than a state in which all frames of comprehension, of interpretation or analysis, are lacking; once these frames are brought to bear, the mystery that drew the anthropologist towards his subject evaporates.
As well as a dilapidated appearance, the school in Brent, London, is afflicted by a very leaky roof.
