Sentence examples for afflicts the majority of from inspiring English sources

This phenomenon, typically referred to as replant disease or disorder, afflicts the majority of tree fruit and nut crop production systems, including apple, in all of the major fruit-growing regions of the world.

"This is the money belief pattern that afflicts the majority of Americans".

As soon as she started practicing yoga the immediacy of the poverty that afflicts the majority of women in India struck a chord in her heart.

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.

They remained indifferent to the cruel poverty and hopelessness which has afflicted the majority of the population as a result of Yegor Gaidar's technocratic reform after so many years of communism, yet another heartless experiment performed on the unfortunate people of Russia.

Informal working arrangements afflict the majority of people, and thus the majority of the population have no social protection.

Skeletal metastases are an incurable complication afflicting the majority of patients who die from advanced breast cancer.

An important finding is that not only patients with severe hematological disease are afflicted: the majority of patients has an intermediate risk for the acquisition of invasive disease.

Although the two genes appear to function independently, the researchers say, together they are probably responsible for well over 50% of cases of late-onset Alzheimer's, the form that afflicts the vast majority of the 4 million Americans with the disease.

The impact would have been far greater, freed of the mid-show sluggishness that afflicts the vast majority of long-form shows.

They arose from the old colonial powers and from imperialist policies which in turn engendered the backwardness and poverty which today afflicts the vast majority of mankind.