The word "afflicting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "afflicting" to describe when something is causing pain, difficulty, or distress. For example, "The afflicting nature of her illness left her feeling exhausted."
The smaller teams are convinced that Thursday's meeting, with its failure to address the problems afflicting the majority of the teams, paved the way for the introduction of "customer cars", with the bigger teams providing both engines and cars for other teams, creating a two-tier grid.
There were in fact only around 150 demonstrators gathered at the front of the Dáil, a figure that perhaps said more about Irish attitudes to the present economic crisis afflicting the Republic than a disgruntled builder battering down the gates.
In particular, he suggested that Labour would try to address a "cultural drought" afflicting areas outside London and the south-east because of lower funding, as well as encouraging the arts world to hire people from a variety of backgrounds.
Among the many casualties of the economic downturn afflicting the Irish Republic at present is the SDLP in Northern Ireland.
Far from a pathology afflicting individuals, the desire to scream out in pain and isolation under the wobbly sky is a sane response to an insane world.
This week California's leaders pledged a further $687m in drought relief.Drought is also afflicting California's neighbours to the east (see map).
As a result even the strongest banks from peripheral euro-area countries such as Spain or Italy (where yields on an auction of three-year government bonds surged to an unsustainable 7.9% on November 29th) are finding it hard to borrow from investors.Yet the bond-buyers' strike afflicting banks is more worrying than the sovereign one.
But this risk will be tempered by the slowdown already afflicting the American economy and heading across the Atlantic.The combination of rising inflation and slowing growth may bear a worrying resemblance to the stagflationary 1970s, but there has been a sea-change in advanced economies since then.
The list of culprits for the woes afflicting banks includes bankers' pay, credit ratings, ill-prepared boards, sleepy supervisors, accounting regimes, flawed risk models and Alan Greenspan.
But this is the sort of thing a government should do at the beginning of its tenure, not at the end.The BJP's proudest boast is that India's economy has weathered the crisis afflicting many developing countries better than most.
The slump in mergers and acquisitions, and the many other ills afflicting the banking industry, means far fewer Masters of the Universe jetting back and forth between New York and London.Add to that the official demonisation of business trips as frivolous, starting at the top with Barack Obama's public condemnations.
