Sentence examples for afflicted being from inspiring English sources

Around these three iconic characters is woven a complex narrative of the founding and growth of Zambia, and, in the book's second half, of the arrival of and battle against what is referred to only as "The Virus" — the H.I.V./AIDS pandemic, which, by the year 2000, affected more than 15percentt of the Zambian population, more than half of the afflicted being women.

"A third of those afflicted were children.

One of the afflicted is Peter Pagan.

It should not, but those politically afflicted are conflicted.

The vast majority of those afflicted are women.

Not infrequently the afflicted are an older man and a younger woman, hardly more than a child.

Among the worst afflicted were those arriving from abroad, often facing violence from far-right groups alongside hunger and homelessness.

The legions of the afflicted are the children of surgeons and scientists, teachers and day care workers.

Caring for those afflicted isn't easy, writes Louis Theroux.

However, many of the families of the afflicted are already raising funds on their own to contribute to research.

Among the afflicted was Sue, who got sick five times.