Sentence examples for afflicted on the from inspiring English sources

Have you ever been puzzled or troubled by the biblical account attributing the first six plagues afflicted on the Egyptians to Pharaoh's hardening of his heart but then the final four plagues to the fact that God hardened Pharaoh's heart?

Aside from contemplating the fact that Claridge maintained that he too had been abused as a child in a care home, the damage and cruelty he afflicted on the little helpless girls and countless others - he kept birds especially to attract local children - is so profound that his own sickness does not invite any attempt at a considered, intellectual response.

I drove myself to the hospital, using the other eye (the afflicted one was on the "good" side of my face) and was surprised to be told that I had to stay overnight.

If they don't manage to comfort the afflicted on this national holiday -- and at least unsettle the comfortable -- they're followed by a slide show with even more quotes.

But just as she stepped out the door, my friend's mother noticed that the girl's hips had broadened beyond what food could afflict on the human anatomy in such little time, and insisted that she raise her skirt.

No one seemed to be similarly afflicted on opening night of the live show at Radio City Music Hall, although children certainly had paroxysms of joy.

These two icons also strove to change the system that permits the violence afflicted on other creatures, and to go to the darkest sites of injustice and to bear witness there.

This rich history allowed us to observe, perhaps for the first time, how recurrent TF binding mutations found within conserved combinatorially occupied TF binding sites can be afflicted on several members of the same pathway.

A more fitting moniker: the Memphis Blues, which would describe the malady the team has afflicted on its fans.

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD likes nothing better than to blame wicked foreigners for the woes they have afflicted on South-East Asia's financial markets in recent months.

And the sight of poor Amahl hopping about the stage on his one good leg is, critics would say, typical of the emotional exploitation in the operas, which do tend to read like a disabled persons' charter, with the blind, mute, lame and otherwise afflicted on perpetual parade.