Sentence examples for afflicting a from inspiring English sources

Subsequently he investigated a form of dysentery afflicting a French cavalry squadron during World War I, and he happened to mix a filtrate of the clear areas with a culture of dysentery bacteria.

Ms. Pearson cites an 18th-century English treatise blaming city living for "a class and set of distempers, with atrocious and frightful symptoms, scarce known to our Ancestors," that is, "nervous disorders" afflicting a third of the population.

Once an infestation afflicting a few obsessives, now the infection has passed to 52% of the nation too, fanned by fears and fantasies from Murdoch and the Daily Mail.

Representative Adam H. Putnam of Florida, chairman of the House Republican Conference, equated the bill with using "a sledgehammer on a gnat," saying it was an exaggerated response to a problem afflicting a relatively small percentage of people.

Signalling the White House's intention to move on from the rollout of the laws introduced under the Affordable Care Act, which was hampered by disastrous technical failures afflicting a crucial federal website, Obama announced his nomination to succeed Sebelius, who he insisted had overseen reforms that will transform America.

In a little more than two decades, Mr. Culhane said, largely because of an economic boom that increased demand for urban housing by single adults who could pay, "homelessness went from a problem afflicting a few thousand skid row denizens to a commonplace way station for millions of America's poor".

We define the new idea of blind image repair as a process of correcting one or more different and unknown types of distortions afflicting an image.

Osteoarthritis is one of the more common of the chronic degenerative diseases afflicting an increasingly older population.

Aging is not due to the progressive breakdown of a complex biochemical machine due to accretions of damage afflicting an entity that could otherwise continue functioning indefinitely.

These problems would afflict a British version of The Bridge.

(Similar problems afflicted a company, My Rich Uncle, that went bankrupt in 2009).