Sentence examples for afflicting it from inspiring English sources

"This country has to finally grasp the full dimensions" of the unique economic crisis afflicting it, she said.

Instead of letting them play to a decision Tuesday night -- fans obviously want decisions even in exhibition games, which is what the All-Star Game is -- Major League Baseball was left with another questionable development that added to a growing list of problems afflicting it.

The chemical constituents in a plant are dependent on the soil they are grown in, rainfall and sunshine, the season of harvesting, the stage of the plant growth during harvest, diseases afflicting it, and the parts that were harvested.

Two: The often publicized reference to Asian Americans as the "model minority," due to their high level of educational and financial success relative to the national average, conceal the deeper socioeconomic diversity of the community and the multifaceted challenges afflicting it.

But as years went by and the Japanese economy failed to cycle out of its downturn, observers gradually realized that something even deeper afflicted it: not enough people.

Don't stigmatize the afflicted, it cautions; you could be next.

Another series of still-unexplained memory glitches afflicted it last month.

Mothers and hustlers bridled in the chokingdust that afflicts it from everywhere, yet ownsto no thread in the proceedings.

Its declared aim is to save Nicaragua from the plague of tiny political parties which afflicted it in the 1990s.

Mr Stein is particularly concerned by asset-liability mismatches that could leave the financial system vulnerable to the runs that afflicted it in 2007-2009.

The proposed fine, disclosed by the bank yesterday, is the latest development in a mis-selling scandal that has afflicted it for two years.