The phrase "afflicts working" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation where something negatively impacts or causes distress to those who are working, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The new policy afflicts working conditions, making it difficult for employees to perform their tasks effectively."
Alternatives: "harms workers" or "burdens employees".
The boy, Javier Morena, was the oldest son of a poor family that sold fruit at a market in Iztapalapa, a poor neighborhood here, an indication that the plague of kidnappings for ransom afflicts the working class as well as the wealthy.
The problems of theoretical high energy physics, though, do not greatly afflict physicists working in much of the rest of the discipline.
The hypothesis being tested was that the group where participants never interacted would be the most creative on the task, largely because they wouldn't succumb to the groupthink and other challenges that afflict group working.
Once considered a disease of older people, poor diets and higher rates of obesity mean it is increasingly afflicting those of working age as well.
It would ignore the fact that those communities are suffering from the same post-industrial, globalisation-induced trauma that's afflicting the white working class.
Vance writes poignantly and personally about the many problems afflicting the white working class, including the decaying social structure: divorce, domestic violence, declining church attendance and so on.
Online education has experienced explosive growth, is incalculably convenient for both student and instructor, and mitigates the fear of in-person, classroom presentations that afflict many highly experienced, working professionals.
Thats a winning strategy if you expect your tax bracket to be lower in retirement, or if it gets you past some tax triggers that will afflict you in your working years.
Informal working arrangements afflict the majority of people, and thus the majority of the population have no social protection.
Eight years later, Wayne and Esther Meyers and their three — later four — children moved to Central Africa, where they spent more than a decade working with people afflicted with one of the world's most feared and misunderstood diseases: leprosy.
