The English child was also afflicted, in the 15th and 16th centuries, by many "Books of Courtesy" (such as The Babees Boke, c. 1475), the ancestors of modern, equally ineffective manuals of conduct.
Recent studies estimate that 700,000 people are afflicted in the United States (US) and Canada alone [2], with a global annual incidence ranging from 0.5 to 24.5 cases per 100,000 [3].
We watch as Anderson, like some silent-comedy villain with a heart of gold, happily uses every greasy tool at his disposal — eavesdropping, blackmail, planting spies, poking through garbage — to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted in his influential and long-running column, "Washington Merry-Go-Round".
Can I put you in touch?" If a journalist's mission is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, a good PR person makes the comfortable look slightly afflicted in order to give the journalist a better story.
In March, Jim Carrey will be similarly afflicted in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
Regardless of how he carried out his ministry, Father Egan thought of the afflicted in spiritual terms.
In contrast to Greece and other afflicted economies in the euro zone that are heavily indebted to foreign creditors, 60 percent of Japan's government bonds are held by Japanese banks, insurance companies and pension funds.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A massive earthquake off southern Mexico on Thursday night that killed at least 91 people damaged tens of thousands of homes and afflicted upwards of two million people in the poorer south, state officials said, as more details of the disaster emerged.
For services to humanitarian aid to people afflicted in war in Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo and the Palestinian Territories.
citizen who has been in the afflicted countries in the recent past, until the crisis is over".
