The phrase "afflicted that" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a condition of being affected by something, but it lacks proper context and structure.
Example: "He was afflicted that he could not attend the event due to illness."
Alternatives: "suffering from" or "burdened by".
I feel that oppressors, or any institution with abusive practices, want to "move forward" yet not truly allow those who have been afflicted that same pathway or opportunity.
A founding member of the influential Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP), which was launched in 2000 to prevent a recurrence of the problems that afflicted that year's U.S. presidential election, he has most recently been applying the principles of queuing theory to the problem of managing voter turnout.
Having set out his array of enjoyable examples from stuttering King George VI to Charlie Brown, Moran reaches the conclusion, mildly reassuring to those of us afflicted, that shyness is "neither a boon nor a burden" but simply "part of the ineluctable oddness of being human".
Although the Bleecker Street shops suffered in the weeks following the attack on the World Trade Center, on Saturday it seemed a bit harder to support the conventional wisdom that the downtown marketplace is horribly afflicted, that shopping is now anathema to most New Yorkers, that tourists no longer come.
Drought afflicted that country for a decade and a half, and in response residents cut their use to about 38 gallons per person per day.
Both myself and the boys wanted to talk about some of the genuine problems that afflicted that area and how it was a shame that we probably couldn't really address them in the magazine because it was council-funded.
"André, who had the marvellous good taste to afflict that poor girl with those pearls?" "I don't know, Mrs. Vreeland," André said.
Put simply, exorcism is the expulsion of an unwanted force or energy from a person, place, or thing that is afflicted by that energy.
Last holiday season, many online toy sellers were afflicted with that bad rap.
I've never been afflicted with that disease".
I prefer to see a chance for this country, especially Colin Powell, to help resolve the profound problems afflicting that vast continent.
