Sentence examples for and afflicted by a from inspiring English sources
The European Union is dysfunctional, corrupt, and afflicted by a kind of corporate folie de grandeur.
In addition to such clearly offensive and unacceptable expressions as loony, maniac, nutter, psycho and schizo, terms to avoid - because they stereotype and stigmatise - include victim of, suffering from, and afflicted by; "a person with" is clear, accurate and preferable to "a person suffering from".
While geriatrics is the medical discipline that treats the elderly, nutrigerontology is a medical and scientific discipline that wants to act as much as possible on the period before people are old, frail, and afflicted by a myriad of aging-related diseases.
We became old, and afflicted by an occasional unbearable yearning to tie up all those loose ends of childhood.
Marty Rea starts the day with an astonishing Richard II: an androgynous, hairless figure resembling an Egyptian pharaoh and afflicted by an ungovernable rage.
As a child, Stephen was often sickly and afflicted by constant colds.
If we are tired, unhealthy and afflicted by numerous minor ailments, concentration will be more difficult.
The exclusion criteria were as follows: (a) women with more than three children, (b) women with a history of physical and mental illness, (c) women not living with their husbands at the time of the study (divorced, widowed and separated), (d) obese and pregnant women, and those afflicted by a special mental and psychological crisis at the time of interview.
(Scott) '39 POUNDS OF LOVE' (No rating, 74 minutes, in English and Hebrew) Afflicted by a rare disease that keeps his weight at 39 pounds and allows him to move only one finger, the 34-year-old animator Ami Ankilewitz nevertheless dreams of riding a Harley-Davidson.
She seems not to know how to make a home in Israel, and is afflicted by a sense of the country's forceful novelty: She was a cocktail waitress.
In the mid-1980s Chincomesncomes were more evenly distributed than India's—hardly surprising, since China was nominally communist and India is afflicted by a caste system.
