The phrase "affliction to" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not commonly used and may lead to confusion; typically, "affliction" is used with "of" or "with" to indicate what is being suffered from.
Example: "He has been living with the affliction of chronic pain for years."
Alternatives: "suffering from" or "burdened by".
Bad skin can change quickly from an affliction to an obsession.
Outright starvation, arising from strife or natural disaster, is a graphic affliction to which the world responds fairly swiftly.
The conservative call for "tax relief" assumes that taxation is harmful and immoral, an affliction to be relieved.
The medium will prescribe ritual actions designed to transform the spirit from a source of affliction to a benevolent or neutral power or to send the spirit away.
But perhaps it is Pakistan's ability to do harm to itself that most struck me – symbolised, I fear, by the latest and most terrible affliction to strike it: child-kidnapping.
As he tries to explain his affliction to Kalwant Kaur, his current lover, he tells the story of discovering the girl after breaking into a house and killing her family: "I could have slashed her throat, but I didn't. . . .
She appeared to the public to be in radiant health, but had serious and often gruelling afflictions to contend with.
To be published in America by Viking in August.THE first world war brought many afflictions to Europe: revolution, civil war, two famines, collectivisation, dictatorship and terror.
Along the route, they will be serenaded in Spanish by the Undead Mariachi Trio and watch beggars like Legless Joe bewail their afflictions to tug on the heartstrings and purse strings of weary commuters.
For her, loneliness and mortality are not merely conditions to be recalled but present afflictions to be endured, and she can only pray, "Give me what I can bear to know I felt".
Yet now that crisis is hitting the wealthy world, leaders are avoiding the hardest decisions and hoping to muddle through -- all while exporting their afflictions to multiple shores.
