"affliction about" is not a correct or commonly used phrase in written English.
It would be more natural to say "affliction over," "affliction concerning," or "affliction regarding." Example: - She was overcome with an affliction over the loss of her beloved pet. - The book delves into the character's affliction concerning her identity. - The doctor spoke to the patient about her affliction regarding her chronic pain.
But last week the big number was a bequest, and in a country coping with corporate scandal and economic affliction and about ready to march off to war, there was something marvelously innovatory, out-of-step almost, about someone investing what could be as much as $100 million in Poetry, the magazine, and in poetry, the art.
In Mills' book, friendship allows not only access, but a structural dodge: she has written a memoir – about the process of research and discovery, about her life and affliction with lupus (about which the sisters were extremely kind; another slight unease, because, as Alice Munro once wrote, "a sick person … emotionally, holds all the cards"), and the progress of their friendship.
The mealy bug and other afflictions cost about 16% of the cotton crop, which in turn hurt the textile industry.
–Isaiah 41 13 Realize that our afflictions are about Him.
It is a temporary brain affliction that affects about 23.5 per 100,000 people every year.
And before that there was neurasthenia, a widely diagnosed and undefined nerve affliction causing just about any symptom people cared to add.
A radio drama in the local language, Setswana, spreads information about the affliction.
He began talking with team and personal doctors about the affliction, which is often associated with kidney ailments.
The portraits are accompanied by audio clips in which the subjects speak about their affliction, how they cope, and how they don't.
People often come up to me after lectures to whisper about their affliction, as though everyone else in the room weren't grappling with precisely the same thing.
