The phrase "afflicted equally" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two or more parties experience the same level of suffering or hardship.
Example: "In times of crisis, it is often the vulnerable populations that are afflicted equally, regardless of their background."
Alternatives: "suffered uniformly" or "burdened equally".
There are no guarantees that both nations are equally afflicted.
For those who worked alongside him and were deeply stirred by his courage, he will remain a symbol of hope for many others who are equally afflicted.
There's absolutely no point in throwing public subsidies into electricity and gas markets that are charcterised by the abuse of market - and relying on capital markets that are equally afflicted by the abuse of market power.
Yet Bergman takes care to show that Tomas and the fisherman are not alone in their suffering, and that others, equally afflicted — the fisherman's wife, the pastor's steadfast lover, his hunchbacked assistant — are able to bear their pain into a still deeper faith and capacity for love.
Even worse, I'd argue... our global leadership seems equally afflicted... the proof being that despite best efforts, conferences, diplomacy, pledges and the like, our daily news -- full of killing, hatred, war, terrorism, violence and such... seems never to abate -- if anything it seems to spread.
Mr. Guggenheim, who spoke by telephone from Kabul, where he is working with that government on development, said that project delays like those afflicting East Timor are equally common in Afghanistan.
"Affligé " can also be translated as "afflicted," and, if the word carries with it a sense of cursed inevitability, both its senses have begun to seem equally, horribly valid in France.
But the slide in economic morality afflicted Red and Blue America equally.
A new Yale study under review at a medical journal found that a failure to publish afflicts researchers equally in prestigious medical centers and ones that are less well known.
Perhaps that's because this year's extreme weather has afflicted residents of red and blue states equally.
