Sentence examples for afflicted in a from inspiring English sources

Social phobias, panic disorder, OCD, and PTSD all fall somewhere on the anxiety spectrum, and about 40 million Americans are afflicted in a given year.

But he sold off most of them after he became afflicted in 2001 with an undiagnosed lung condition that left him wheelchair-bound and on oxygen.

Xinjiang is a vast region of deserts and snow-capped mountains that borders Central Asian nations, and that is afflicted in parts, especially along a southern belt of oasis towns, by tensions between ethnic Uighurs and ethnic Han, who rule China.

This time it is Men in Black II - or MIIB, as the poster styles it - and that five-year delay should alert us to the likelihood that the franchise found itself afflicted in the interim by a galloping case of the Part Two Blues.

Once a two-fisted virtuoso, Mr. Graffman was afflicted in 1980 with focal dystonia, a repetitive-stress disorder that affects fine-motor control.

It's easy to imagine McCandless afflicted, in his final days, by a similar kind of entropy to the one faced by the climbers in "Everest".

Conversely, harnessing this sympathetic plasticity to regenerate the intra-adipose arborizations afflicted in metabolic disorders might provide a novel entry point for therapeutic strategy to restore the local sympathetic efferent outputs, and as the result, the metabolic homeostasis of WAT.

Can I put you in touch?" If a journalist's mission is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, a good PR person makes the comfortable look slightly afflicted in order to give the journalist a better story.

If Job is afflicted in this way, then he must have sinned.

In March, Jim Carrey will be similarly afflicted in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".

Similar uncertainties appear to have afflicted measurements in a deep bore hole in the Greenland ice sheet.