When Americans, of all people, are afflicted with what the singer-songwriter Roger Miller called "shellout falter" — a reluctance to spend — then the whole world is liable, as Miller put it so well in his song "Dang Me," to "lack $14 having 27 cents".
As far as producers are concerned, all writers are afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome.
This rampant individualism, as reflected in American social policies through the years, accounts in great measure for the devastating social problems with which all of us are afflicted.
*** In the absence of a reasonably well-organised system of public healthcare for all, many people are afflicted by overpriced and inefficient private healthcare.
Although virtually all children who are afflicted with Kawasaki syndrome eventually conquer the symptomatic fever and rash, about one-fifth of those afflicted have weakened hearts because the disease triggers a massive immune-system response that damages the blood vessels of the heart.
"Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to deny numerous further legal challenges to E.P.A.'s science-based determination that six greenhouse gases threaten our nation's health and well-being is a historic victory for all Americans that are afflicted by the ravages of extreme weather," Vickie Patton, general counsel of the Environmental Defense Fund, said in a statement.
Although the number of "cyberchondriacs" — people who research health information online — is at an all-time high, those who are afflicted with chronic conditions are less likely to have Internet access, according to data from Pew.
All countries, of course, are afflicted to some degree with internal organized crime.
All classes across Britain are afflicted and don't want to admit to their problem.
About half of all men over 50 are afflicted with swollen prostates, a noncancerous ailment formally known as benign prostatic hyperplasia, the institutes say.
