Sentence examples for afflicted for decades from inspiring English sources

He quotes from my poems about Jane's death, then from my friend Christian Wiman, afflicted for decades with his own multiple cancers.

The authorities expressed amazement at the extent of the corruption that they said had infested Cicero in this latest episode of a town afflicted for decades by mob influence.

Its spatial distribution shows a mosaic-like pattern, with some villages afflicted for decades, whereas others situated in the same vicinity have remained free of BEN [ 6- 8].

What lies ahead for a country that has already run the ideological gamut of political leaders in recent years, with none able to ease the crisis, may be a return to the more profound instability and tumult that afflicted Greece for decades before and after World War II — civil war, military coups and dictatorship.

Although drought, famine, poverty, and war have afflicted Sudan for decades, Sudanese leaders in public health have a vision of a better future.

So, too, do crucial topics like lynching, which afflicted black Americans for decades.

As Joumblatt told it, the Syrians had destroyed his family, and afflicted his country for decades.

But ethnic civil wars have afflicted the country for decades, and the conflicts raise questions about whether the demands of ethnic minorities like the Kachin will be given serious consideration by the evolving ethnic Burmese-dominated government.

Addressing the Muslim majority as well as the dwindling Christian minority (since the creation of Israel, the number of Christians in the Palestinian territories has fallen from 15-20% of the Palestinian population to less than 1.5%), he said: "I know how much you have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of the turmoil that has afflicted this land for decades".

He acknowledged Palestinian suffering and the destruction of Gaza but attributed it to "the turmoil that has afflicted this land for decades".

In short, he argues, the U.S. financial crisis is a bigger version of the crises that have afflicted emerging-market nations for decades.