Sentence examples for afflicts their from inspiring English sources

(Lionsgate, Blu-ray $39.99, standard definition $29.95, PG) EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES A couple search for a cure to the rare genetic disorder that afflicts their children.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Axelrod and his wife, Susan, spoke to the crowd about the charity they had created to fight epilepsy, which afflicts their daughter.

I have also seen pain in many faces and wonder what agony afflicts their lives, what sorrow makes them old before their time.

Yet the heavy-drinking Italians had nothing like the problems that afflicted their Irish counterparts.

MANY Japanese businessmen will tell you that the biggest problem afflicting their country is lack of political leadership.

Bardhan investigates the two countries' economic reforms, each nation's pattern and composition of growth, and the problems afflicting their agricultural, industrial, infrastructural, and financial sectors.

You use the power of the state to afflict their social movements, to wreck their proudest government agencies, and to divert their funding streams.

But The Independent on Sunday understands that he also expressed his regret about the coldness that had afflicted their relationship for more than 15 years.

Instead, they came up against the same snag which had afflicted their opposite numbers - an unresponsive pitch and some decent batting.

"Now it was killing them" — just as it later afflicted their daughter, Irène, and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, whose scientific research followed in the Curies' footsteps.

The British are shunning beef even though the malady now afflicting their animals -- foot-and-mouth disease -- does not harm people who eat infected meat.