Sentence examples for afflicts the most from inspiring English sources

As does his implication that melancholy afflicts the most ambitious human efforts, that it is a historical and collective, not just a personal, fate.

"Pneumonia disproportionately afflicts the most marginalised and the poorest children, accounting for the deaths of almost 1 million children under five each year, according to UNICEF's latest estimates", said Dr. Mickey Chopra, head of UNICEF's global health programmes.

The episode of the banner was the latest in a series of humiliations this month afflicting the most hallowed edifice in all of China.

As an umbrella term, anxiety is the mental illness afflicting the most Americans today.

When gay men tried in several desperate measures to follow established political channels to bring attention to a disease that afflicted the most cast out members of society only to meet silence from the government, some used direct action tactics.

They were there to discuss the urgent need to invest in early childhood development policies and programmes, and to step up efforts to reverse the trend of institutionalization and violence that afflicts the region's most vulnerable children.

Every year, three out of every 1,000 children are born with a genetic disease, such as cystic fibrosis, that did not afflict the parents who most likely unknowingly carried a defective copy of a particular gene.

There is surely a concern that detention may be used inappropriately, as tuberculosis most often afflicts the poor and minorities.

And if you're married, try to remember that paint samples can afflict even the most intelligent and sane people with either severe indecision or a sudden and inexplicable craving for a bathroom in bright orange.

Many street disputes are not gang or even clique related, but the climate of violence created by the gangs, with their ready access to arms, means that a Hobbesian, kill-or-be-killed mentality can afflict even the most minor altercations.

We have previously shown that type I SMA patients, afflicted with the most severe form of the disease, display an increased number of glucagon-producing α-cells within islets as well as abnormal glucose levels (28).