Sentence examples for afflicted zone from inspiring English sources

But the repercussions spread beyond the afflicted zone itself.

Treasury officials say that European policy makers need to build a "fire wall" to stabilize borrowing costs for afflicted euro zone members.

But G.M.'s announcement that it had made a final decision on the factory's fate still caused shock waves in Germany, which has so far narrowly escaped the downturns and rising unemployment afflicting euro zone countries including Italy and Spain.

It was designed to ensure that there could be no repeat of the debt problems that have afflicted the euro zone.

A curious thing about Provence is how the coast and the mountains have exchanged population: the coast was once an overheated pirate-afflicted zone that nobody wanted, while the cool hills were desirable – everyone lived up here.

It says the euro zone is afflicted by three ills: a banking crisis, a sovereign-debt crisis and a growth crisis.

High unemployment is also afflicting the euro zone, hurting consumers.

Deflation, which makes debts harder to bear, has taken hold in the periphery, and threatens to afflict the euro zone as a whole.

A number of readers have asked why the United States doesn't have internal problems with balance of payments imbalances comparable to those afflicting the euro zone.

Mr. Westerwelle forcefully defended the outcome of the summit meeting in Brussels, which embraced Germany's recipe of austerity and discipline for combating the economic crisis afflicting the euro zone's troubled members — a crisis that has called into question the viability of the euro itself.

In contrast to Greece and other afflicted economies in the euro zone that are heavily indebted to foreign creditors, 60 percent of Japan's government bonds are held by Japanese banks, insurance companies and pension funds.